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Agents raid home of Kansas man seeking info on botnet that infected DOD network

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

US military investigators have raided the home of a Kansas man looking for information about a crypto-mining botnet that has infected US Air Force servers.

The raid is related to a November 2020 security breach that impacted the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the Air Force’s internal law enforcement agency.

Read more on The Record.


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