{"id":336,"date":"2011-04-14T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodwin.drexel.edu\/isensor\/drho\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-04-14T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:49:20","slug":"u-s-shuts-down-massive-cyber-theft-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"U.S. shuts down massive cyber theft ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=336\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>WASHINGTON\/BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. authorities claimed one of their biggest victories against cyber crime as they shut down a ring they said used malicious software to take control of more than 2 million PCs around the world, and may have led to theft of more than $100 million. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cyber_security.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A computer virus, dubbed Coreflood, infected more than 2 million PCs, enslaving them into a &#8220;botnet&#8221; that grabbed banking credentials and other sensitive data its masters used to steal funds via fraudulent banking and wire transactions, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The government shuttered that botnet, which had operated for a decade, by seizing hard drives used to run it after a federal court in Connecticut gave the go-ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was big money stolen on a large scale by foreign criminals. The FBI wanted to stop it and they did an incredibly good job at it,&#8221; said Alan Paller, director of research at the SAN Institute, a nonprofit group that helps fight cyber crime.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the infected machines were in the United States, but the criminal gang was likely overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re pretty sure a Russian crime group was behind it,&#8221; said Paller.<\/p>\n<p>From TalkingPonitsMemo: http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2011\/04\/us_shuts_down_massive_cyber_theft_ring.php?ref=fpc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\/BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. authorities claimed one of their biggest victories against cyber crime as they shut down a ring they said used malicious software to take control of more than 2 million PCs around the world, and may have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-latest-news-ideas-problems-strategies-and-tactics-in-securing-cyberspace-and-virtual-organizations-discussed-by-experts-in-industries-as-well-as-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}