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FBI announces cracking down black hat hackers

The security agency FBI declared on Thursday that it was successful in getting the hackers who were using computer to commit financial scams.

The 8 individuals who are called the black hat hackers used zombie computers for creating the financial frauds. The eight cases have been dubbed by FBI and called the operation “Operation Bot Roast II”.

The hackers were involved in sending Trojan infected emails to viewers and then they controlled their computer from their own central server through chat applications. The crackdown was conducted on botnet that has varying sizes but the largest can contain a million computers.