FBI Recruits Facebook To Help Bring Down Cyber Gang

By  |  December 12, 2012
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Facebook helped the FBI track 10 members of a cyber gang that’s allegedly cost more than $850 in damages and infected 11 million computers.

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    Facebook’s security team became involved in the investigation after the gang’s malware, Yahos, targeted its system in 2010, reports Finextra.

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