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Department of Justice Indicts Seven Iranians for State-Sponsored Hacking

March 27, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Department of Justice has announced the indictment of seven Iranian hackers alleged to work for the Iranian government on charges stemming from a coordinated string of distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attacks primarily against U.S. financial institutions from 2011 to 2013.  One of the hackers is also charged with hacking into the supervisory control […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, International, National Security Tagged With: Department of Justice, Prosecution

International Collaboration Disrupts GameOver Zeus and CryptoLocker

June 4, 2014 By Maki DePalo

On June 2, 2014, in collaboration with the European Cybercrime Centre at Europol, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a multi-national effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet, an extremely sophisticated type of malware designed to steal banking and other credentials from infected computers. The DOJ and the FBI also […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Enforcement, International Tagged With: Department of Justice

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