ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Just hours after announcing an indictment against Chinese nationals over alleged cyber espionage, U.S. officials said they had carried out a second case involving cyber spying.<br/> <br />At a news conference in New York, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, said law enforcement agencies "exposed and crippled a frightening form of cyber crime, affecting hundreds of thousands of computer users around the world."<br/> <br />Bharara said the operation's target was an organization known as Blackshades, which created and sold a program known as the remote access tool, or RAT for short.<br/> <br />"For just $40, the Blackshades RAT enabled anyone around the world to instantly become a dangerous cyber criminal, able to steal your property and invade your privacy," Bharara said.<br/> <br />Bharara said the software allowed users to intrude on victims' privacy, log keystrokes on victim's computers, seize files on compromised computers, and hold