‘Biggest Cybercriminal Takedown in History’
Summary: Estonian authorities arrested six men, including Vladimir Tsastsin, 31, on Tuesday and charged them with running a click fraud scheme that infected more than four million computers in over 100 countries, including an estimated 500,000 PCs in the United States. The operation, dubbed "Operation Ghost Click," used DNS Changer malware to redirect browsers to ads and allegedly generated more than $14 million; a seventh defendant, Andrey Taame, 31, remains at large.
What's compelling: Four million infected machines worldwide, half a million of them in the U.S., meant that simply seizing the rogue DNS servers would have cut off Internet access for every one of those victims - which is why the court had to hand the swap to Internet Systems Consortium before the FBI could act.
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