Tag: FBI
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The FBI Just Took Down a Massive Malware That Infected 700,000 Computers
The Federal Bureau of Investigations and its European partners took down a global malware network that’s been using a malicious software agent to commit numerous cybercrimes for the last 15 years, according to a release from the Department of Justice. The operation also saw the seizure of over $8.6 million in illicit cryptocurrency profits, and…
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The FBI is Asking Everyone to Reboot Their Routers to Help Destroy a Botnet
Today the FBI is asking everyone to reboot their routers. According to the FBI, rebooting your router will destroy the part of the malware that can do nasty things like spy on your activities, while leaving the install package intact. The FBI says that will help them track this group as they seized a domain that…
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Roku Again Shuts Down XTV for Piracy
Back in early August Roku made it clear that it intended to remove any service that pirates content from its devices. Now it looks like Roku and the FBI has shutdown XTV. A few weeks ago XTV was pulled by Roku but quickly resubmit as XTV2. Now if you use that Roku Channel you get…