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Old Nov 21, 2013 | 5:20 pm
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Originally Posted by boberonicus
What interests me is that these attacks are on the rise and extortion like this would clearly seem to be a felony, but I guess most prosecuting attorneys are uninterested in complex property crimes.
It's pretty hard to prosecute someone when you have no idea who they are, as they are using very sophisticated domain generation algorithms. There is far from a lack of interest. US-CERT and FBI-ICCC are working it rigorously.
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