Posted on 08/30/2023 1:46:09 PM PDT by zeestephen
U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks...They then remotely removed the malicious software agent - known as Qakbot - from thousands of infected computers...Officials said $8.6 million in cybercurrency was seized or frozen...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Must not have given 10% to the big guy
These days nothing is what it seems
The criminal classes running the U.S. and other Western governments are striking at the competitive gangsters, not unlike the Mafia attacking Jewish and Irish rivals. Plus an added bonus of “Russia, Russia, Russia!”
They just don’t like the competition!
I didn’t know the FBI was doing such a good job.
major global malware network used for more than 15 years
Maybe they should have used the J6 agents. They tracked down thousands, arrested them and hauled them off to jail in less than a year and a half.
Five Eyes is seizing their own malware network. Interesting.
Couldn’t open msn.com (ad blocker) any names ?.
They must be cutting into their cybercrimes. Damn shame that the FBI &has become so compromised, that I now question everything the FBI does. While I am saying this as a tongue-in-cheek, but for all I know that could be true.
Good.
Our communist masters will not allow competitors...
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