According to the BBC more than 300,000 people, including many in the US and UK,
could lose internet access later as the FBI shuts off servers used by cyber
thieves. The FBI seized the servers in November 2011 during raids to
break up a gang of criminals who used viruses to infect more than four million
victims. Victims' web searches were
routed through the servers so they saw adverts that led to the gang being paid.
Many machines still harbor the gang's malicious code.The gang racked up more than $14m (£9m) by hijacking web
searches and forcing victims to see certain adverts. They managed to do this
because their servers were taking over a key web function known as domain name
look-up…..
Find out more at http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18735228
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