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July 16, 2015 12:39 am GMT

FBI busts hacker nest dedicated to Android and Facebook exploits

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The FBI has announced the shutdown of what it calls "a major computer hacker forum" that went by the name of Darkode

Criminal charges were filed against 12 of the hackers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Louisiana and Washington, D.C.

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According to the FBI, the hacker forum was an invite-only space for hackers to exchange skills designed to infect computers around the world, with the goal being to later take control of those computers.

"Of the roughly 800 criminal internet forums worldwide, Darkode represented one of the gravest threats to the integrity of data on computers in the United States and around the world and was the most sophisticated English-speaking forum for criminal computer hackers in the world," U.S. Attorney Hickton said in a statement on the agency's website. "Through this operation, we have dismantled a cyber hornets' nest of criminal hackers which was believed by many, including the hackers themselves, to be impenetrable." Read more...

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