Seven international hackers have been charged by the Justice Department with infecting more than four million computers, including 500,000 in the United States, with malware that redirected users through rogue domain name service (DNS) servers controlled by the hackers, netting the suspects at least $14 million in illegal profits, according to an announcement from the FBI late Wednesday. NASA computers were among those infected with the malware, the FBI noted.
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