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FBI Cyber Action Teams: Traveling the World to Catch Cyber Criminals |
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Source: FBI - Posted by Eric Lubow
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The Turkish and Moroccan hackers must have thought they had come up with a brilliant moneymaking scheme: release a computer worm into cyber space, then sit back and watch it steal credit card numbers and other financial information from thousands of infected computers around the globe.
But instead of digitally hijacking masses of credit card numbers, the “Zotob� malicious code that hit the Internet in August caused countless computer systems worldwide to sputter and crash. Operations at major U.S. corporations and news outlets, for example, ground to a halt as computers began to spontaneously reboot.
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