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  • Feds: Cyber Criminals Hijacked 4 Million Computers

    11/10/2011 2:09:35 PM PST · by decimon · 8 replies
    ABC News ^ | November 9, 2011 | RICHARD ESPOSITO and LEE FERRAN
    > According to the indictment, the suspects entered into deals with various internet advertisers in which they would be paid for generating traffic to certain websites or advertisements. But instead of earning the money legitimately, the FBI said the defendants used malware to force infected computers to unwillingly visit the target sites or advertisements -- pumping up click results and, therefore, ill-gotten profits to the tune of $14 million. The malware was also designed to prevent users from installing anti-virus software that may have been able to free the infected computers. > In the first case, if a user searched...