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Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The indictments are part of the FBI’s Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US’s first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that…
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FBI, Dutch police crack the Shadow botnet

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The law-enforcement bodies have cracked a major botnet, asking antivirus company Kaspersky to help victims clean up the malware on their PCs. In a joint operation, the FBI and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit have cracked the Shadow botnet–thought to contain 100,000 PCs. Two…
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FBI warns of new Storm worm variant

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The email uses the phrase ‘FBI vs. Facebook’ in its subject line and contains a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. On Wednesday, the FBI and its partner, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), warned against a new email campaign being used by the creators…
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