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Facebook Helps FBI Smash 11-Million-Machine ‘Butterfly’ Botnet

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In Facebook’s continuing battle to keep cybercriminals from using its site as a handy infection mechanism, it just scored a serious coup. The FBI announced late Tuesday that it had arrested 10 suspects in a cybercriminal conspiracy that infected 11 million computers with banking fraud software and led to $850 million in losses, according to the FBI’s math. read more

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James Barnley

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