DanicaFreak
She's crazy.
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2014
- Messages
- 23,198
- Points
- 1,033
http://fortune.com/2014/06/02/hackers-fbi-gameover/
They took some it down (the FBI) but are warning people
Hacker ring dismantled after stealing $100 million
Share icons
June 2, 2014, 9:31 PM EDT
Thieves stole financial information and extorted victims
Federal and international law enforcement have dismantled a major hacker network responsible for stealing more than $100 million from individuals and businesses, the Justice Department said on Monday.
Officials said that they have also indicted the mastermind – Evgeniy Bogachev, a 30 year-old Russian national who is still at-large – for wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy.
The cyber thieves, believed to operate from Russian and Ukraine, secretly infected computers to capture financial information so they could initiate or re-direct wire transfers to accounts they controlled overseas.
Many victims of the botnet, called GameOver Zeus, were unaware that their computers had been infected. Others had their computer files frozen and were then extorted for money to restore access, a tactic known as “ramsomwar
They took some it down (the FBI) but are warning people
Hacker ring dismantled after stealing $100 million
Share icons
June 2, 2014, 9:31 PM EDT
Thieves stole financial information and extorted victims
Federal and international law enforcement have dismantled a major hacker network responsible for stealing more than $100 million from individuals and businesses, the Justice Department said on Monday.
Officials said that they have also indicted the mastermind – Evgeniy Bogachev, a 30 year-old Russian national who is still at-large – for wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy.
The cyber thieves, believed to operate from Russian and Ukraine, secretly infected computers to capture financial information so they could initiate or re-direct wire transfers to accounts they controlled overseas.
Many victims of the botnet, called GameOver Zeus, were unaware that their computers had been infected. Others had their computer files frozen and were then extorted for money to restore access, a tactic known as “ramsomwar