Posted by admin on November 29th, 2007 filed in
Cyber Terrorism
The FBI reported that botnets are responsible for over 20 million is losses and theft. Since the FBI’s creation of the “Bot Roast” task-force, 13 search warrants have been served across the world and eight individuals in the USA have been found guilty or indicted related to crimes involving botnets.
“Today, botnets are the weapon of choice of cyber criminals. They seek to conceal their criminal activities by using third party computers as vehicles for their crimes. In Bot Roast II, we see the diverse and complex nature of crimes that are being committed through the use of botnets,” said FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. “Despite this enormous challenge, we will continue to be aggressive in finding those responsible for attempting to exploit unknowing Internet users.”If you understand what botnets are, well, even if you don’t, this direct quote should be an eye opener -“Botnets are considered the Swiss Army knives of cyber crime. You name it, they can do it,” Mueller said during a speech at Penn State University. “A botnet could shut down a power grid, flood an emergency call center with millions of spam messages or disable a military command post.”+8 for the good guys
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