If You’re Blocked From the Internet Monday, It’s All This Estonian Crime Ring’s Fault
On July 9th, hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe will be blocked from the Internet. It’s the final phase of Operation Ghost Click, an FBI investigation into the DNSChanger virus.
Last year, the agency and other international authorities apprehended a crime ring of six Estonian hackers who built a complex system of false DNS servers. The customized virus, reports CBC, was spread through ”infected emails, bad websites, and malware scripts,” and affected nearly 650,000 computers around the globe. Read More
