Victory of the Cyber Crime

Casey Ojeda
Victory of the Cyber Crime

U.S. shuts down Massive Cyber Theft Ring
Diane Bartz and Jim Finkle
April 13, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/us-cybersecurity-coreflood-idUSTRE73C7NQ20110413

Summary:

The United States has stop a cyber criminal from stealing financial data. With the virus they spread they manage to steal between 10 million to 100 dollars. The use a malicious software to complete this. They manage to control 2 million computers. The US stut down the ring of this software to avoid this.

Relevance:

This article is relevance to our class since it takes the internet to accomplish this crime. I remember one of my professor said a virus is used for good and bad. Well I never understood that. Virus has been an assault to computers for a long time.

Quote:

“U.S. government programmers shut down the Coreflood botnet on Tuesday. They also instructed the computers enslaved in the botnet to stop sending stolen data and to shut down. A similar tactic was used in a Dutch case, but it was the first time U.S. authorities had used this method to shut down a botnet, according to court documents.” I choose this quote because I don’t know what “Botnet” means.  According to Wikipedia, botnet is a collection of infected computers or bots that have been taken over by crackers (also known as bot herders) and are used to perform malicious tasks or functions.