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Case 76: Silk Road (Part 2)

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The FBI's Cybercrime Division Had the Opposite Problem to the DEA

The leader of Silk Road, the Dread Pirate Roberts, was becoming more brazen in what was for sale. The FBI's cybercrime team immediately checked what hacking tools were for sale on the site. They found listings for keyloggers, banking Trojans, malware applications, spyware applications and much more. A coding error that made the IP address of the server go public allowed them to access it from Iceland.

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