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Two Million Requests from Infected Systems In Week After Ghost Click Takedown

The FBI says more than 2.5 million systems infected with DNSChanger malware connected to DNS servers set up by authorities in the week following a crackdown on a global criminal network dubbed Ghost Click. The data is the best indication yet of the scope of the Ghost Click network, which was the target of a coordinated take down on November 8 by the FBI and a long list of government and law enforcement agencies and private corporations around the world. At the time of the bust, the FBI estimated the scheme affected some 4 million individuals worldwide, and 500,000 in the U.S.

Source: https://threatpost.com/two-million-requests-infected-systems-week-after-ghost-click-takedown-120111/75948/

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