ABSTRACT
Anti-virus companies were not at first aware of the TK worm in the wild. e authorities first discovered this code in the wild and used the Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Task Force (CATCH) team to coordinate an international investigation. By the time the authorities became aware of this code and got involved, multiple variants likely already existed in the wild. Shortly after the authorities began their investigation, the authors of this book also became aware of
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the threat and independently researched the malicious code, scope of investigation, use of bots, and actors responsible.
