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BOSTON (Reuters) U.S. authorities on Friday said they had seized websites used to sell cybercriminals malware called Warzone RAT that could be used to steal data from victims computers...
Federal prosecutors in Boston said law enforcement had taken down four domains that together offered to sell malware, which allowed cybercriminals to secretly connect to peoples computers for malicious purposes...
The malware, a so-called remote access trojan, allowed hackers to browse file systems, take screenshots, obtain a victims user names and passwords, record keystrokes and watch computer users through their web cameras, prosecutors said.. Jodi Cohen, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Boston office, called it sophisticated malware that was used to infect computers globally...
An indictment filed in federal court in Atlanta charged Daniel Meli, 27, of Zabbar, Malta with causing unauthorized damage to protected computers and other cyber-related offenses...
Prosecutors said since 2012, he had sold malware products like the Warzone RAT through online computer-hacking forums and offered teaching tools, including an eBook, for sale..
