Police Detain 80 in International Cyber Crime Operation
Police in 16 countries seized cash, firearms and drugs and arrested 80 people suspected of peddling virus software believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers.
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Two days of raids targeted creators, users and sellers of the “BlackShades” malware, which the FBI says has been sold to thousands of users in more than 100 countries, infecting more than 500,000 computers, says Yahoo News. The software allowed users to control other people’s computers.