The US government seized the domains for Poker Stars, Absolute Poker, and Full Tilt Poker and charged the site principals with bank fraud, illegal gambling offenses and laundering billions in illegal gambling proceeds.
A screenshot of the court filing agains the 13 “John Doe” operators of Coreflood (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report posted Wednesday on the Wired Threat Level blog, and a Thursday report by security blogger Brian Krebs, the US Justice Department and FBI were granted the power this week to seize the enormous Coreflood botnet , a decade-old web of infected PCs that reportedly included millions of machines, and is allegedly responsible for the theft of millions of dollars over that time. Most notable about the seizure is the fact that for the first time, the Justice Department sought and received permission to seize control of a botnet and send a signal to the millions of infected computers to disable the malicious software.


