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DNSChanger and the Global Scope of Cybersecurity

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In November 2011, the FBI-led Operation Ghost Click raided malicious servers run by the Rove Digital cyber group. This was only after the group had leveraged the DNSChanger Trojan to infect over four million computers and generate over $14 million in illicit profits. At the time, the operation was billed as the biggest cyber criminal […]

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How the DNSChanger Shutdown Changed Cybersecurity

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On the morning of July 9, 2012, the world braced for an “internet doomsday”: a full-scale crash of the global internet.  Except it didn’t happen. And that non-event represented the culmination of a long and successful coordinated action taken between a huge number of organizations, spearheaded by the FBI.  It was one of the most […]

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