Google is suing two Russia-based individuals it alleges are behind a massive network of infected computers that have been used for crimes ranging from the theft of personal information to secretly mining bitcoin on the computers of unsuspecting hacking victims. The company also worked with Internet infrastructure companies to take down servers used by hackers to control the network, effectively rendering the “botnet” of infected devices unable to receive new commands from their controllers, at least temporarily.
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