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Feds Shut Down Zeus Botnet

Feds Shut Down Zeus Botnet

June 2, 2014

If you have been keeping up with the technology news lately you may have noticed a trend growing, the FBI is getting fed up with hackers, scammers, and virus creators. Today in the latest string of massive arrests the FBI came down on a group of users spreading the elusive Gameover Zeus Botnet virus. The […]

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None of the $14,000 Accumulated by Flashback was Paid

None of the $14,000 Accumulated by Flashback was Paid

May 23, 2012

In most cases when somebody releases a botnet or virus, it is to generate money from poor, unsuspecting victims. Such was the case with the recent Flashback botnet unleashed on Mac devices. That botnet managed to generate $14,000 from its click fraud campaign. However, the beautiful hand of irony has decided to rest gently on […]

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