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• Cybercrime Arrests: Heralding a New Era?
  Tuesday 25 November 2003 – 11:39
  The good news about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's high-profile mass roundup of accused cybercriminals, in an operations fittingly called "Cyber Sweep," is that it was an exercise of near-unprecedented cooperation in the annals of cyber law enforcement.
• Further Sasser arrests but no charges in Germany
  Thursday 13 May 2004 – 03:14
  Police in Lower Saxony, Germany, arrested five young men on Tuesday in connection with the Sasser Internet worm but all have been released without charge, a police spokesman said Thursday.
• Attorney General announces Arrests in Operation Web Snare
  Friday 27 August 2004 – 01:19
  Arrests and convictions of over 150 individuals were announced today as a result of a coordinated multi-agency attack on online econimic crime and other forms of cybercrime.
• Seven arrested in online fraud crackdown
  Friday 31 March 2006 – 10:41
  The U.S. Secret Service arrested seven people across the nation this week as part of an ongoing investigation that has turned up links to the massive debit-card breaches which have worried banks and consumers.
• FBI arrests Zombie pusher
  Friday 4 November 2005 – 07:56
  The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old man from Los Angeles for profiting from adverts pushed to compromised computers on a zombie network.

• CNN: FBI announces two arrests in Zotob virus investigation*
  Friday 26 August 2005 – 06:26
  CNN International television is reporting this afternoon that the FBI has announced arrests of two individuals - one in Morocco, the other in Turkey - who may be related to the outbreak of the Zotob virus, as well as perhaps one other virus chain.