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Came across Barrett Lyon and the opte project - seems kind of interesting

especially the techniques of creating large graphs of the webs connectivity

"Lyon's work tracking Russian Denial of service attack extortion groups has been featured around the globe[4]. He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov [5]. The three men were at the heart of an extortion ring which was extorting money from banks, Internet casinos, and other web based businesses. Reported damages caused by Maksakov, Petrov, and Stenanov range in the the tens of millions of dollars. On October 8th 2007, Maksakov, Petrov, Stenanov were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in the Russian Federation with a 100,000 ruble penalty[6]."