Tech Exec 1…
Why did he get that fbi director award again?
Wasn't that FB that helped?
In Facebook’s continuing battle to keep cybercriminals from using its site as a handy infection mechanism, it just scored a serious coup. The FBI announced late Tuesday that it had arrested 10 suspects in a cybercriminal conspiracy that infected 11 million computers with banking fraud software and led to $850 million in losses, according to the FBI’s math.
Neither Facebook nor the FBI has shared many details yet about the operation, which allegedly involved farflung suspects in the U.S., Britain, several Balkan countries, Peru, and New Zealand. But it appears to have used a strain of malware known as “Yahos” to assemble a collection of hijacked computers that the FBI has labeled the Butterfly Botnet, aimed at stealing banking details used for fraud.