Police in the United States and seven other countries seized computers and servers used to run a scareware scheme that has netted more than $72 million from victims tricked into buying fake anti-virus software.

FBI continues to work on the Coreflood Botnet, remotely uninstalling it from countless infected PCs.

A few weeks following the Rustock take down, the FBI rids the world of the Coreflood botnet.

U.S. authorities claimed one of their biggest victories against cyber crime as they shut down a ring they said used malicious software to take control of more than 2 million PCs around the world, and may have led to theft of more than $100 million.

U.S. authorities say they have shut down a computer crime ring that ran an international fraud scheme and likely infected more than 2 million computers worldwide in the past decade.