, that was responsible for using bots to buy and sell hacked user data. Through the marketplace, criminals could purchase bots that contained data stolen from users’ devices from saved login information to autofill forms and digital files used to track a user’s online activity.
In another attempt to use bots to steal money from unsuspecting individuals, Joseph James O’Connor was extradited from Spain to the U.S. last month for his role in using bots to hack high-profile Twitter accounts.Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran of the FBI’s Cyber Division said in a news release that O’Connor’s guilty plea showed that their effort to combat cybercrime is working.
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