FBI Pulls the Plug on Butterfly Botnet With Help From Facebook
The FBI arrested 10 people linked to the Butterfly botnet with help from Facebook's security team, the agency said yesterday.
The FBI arrested 10 people linked to the Butterfly botnet with help from Facebook’s security team, the agency said yesterday.
The FBI and other national and international law enforcement groups arrested 10 people in seven countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, several Eastern European countries and Peru.
The FBI declined to say how many were arrested in the United States or where. The district attorneys’ offices that were involved with the case were in Hawaii, the Western District of Pennsylvania; and Washington, D.C.
More than 11 million computers have been compromised by the software the crime ring used.
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