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DOJ Shuts Down Botnet, Disables Infected Systems

April 2011

  • The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Wednesday that they had taken actions to disable an international botnet of more than two million infected computers that was stealing corporate data including user names, passwords and financial information.

    Thirteen unnamed “John Doe” defendents were charged in a civil complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut and 29 domain names connected to the coreflood malware were seized in the raid, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

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