Operation Rot Boast?

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

(I have it on good authority they are expecting reprisals in the form
of cyber attacks as a result from operation bot roast)
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from: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061307-fbi-operation-bot-roast.html

The Department of Justice and FBI today said ongoing investigations
have identified more than 1 million botnet crime victims.
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The FBI is working with industry partners, including the Computer
Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon
University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Microsoft
and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI. Through this
process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have
been used to facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a
statement.

The FBI and Justice Department have an ongoing cyber crime initiative
to disrupt and dismantle botherders known as Operation Bot Roast. To
date, the project has nabbed:

• James C. Brewer of Arlington, Texas, is alleged to have operated a
botnet that infected Chicago area hospitals. This botnet infected tens
of thousands of computers worldwide.

• Jason Michael Downey of Covington, Ken., is charged with using
botnets to send a high volume of traffic to intended recipients to
cause damage by impairing the availability of such systems.

• Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle or the Spam King, is alleged to have
used a large botnet network and spammed tens of millions of
unsolicited email messages to advertise his website from which he
offered services and products.

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