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Two major operations against botnets have been carried out this week, including a U.S. takedown of what the Department of Justice called"likely the world’s largest botnet ever".
YunHe Wang, 35, a Chinese national and St. Kitts and Nevis citizen-by-investment, has been arrested for deploying malware, and creating and operating a residential proxy service known as 911 S5. "The 911 S5 botnet infected computers in nearly 200 countries and facilitated a whole host of computer-enabled crimes, including financial frauds, identity theft, and child exploitation."
"The conduct alleged here reads like it’s ripped from a screenplay: a scheme to sell access to millions of malware-infected computers worldwide, enabling criminals over the world to steal billions of dollars, transmit bomb threats, and exchange child exploitation materials—then using the scheme’s nearly $100 million in profits to buy luxury cars, watches, and real estate," said assistant secretary for export enforcement Matthew Axelrod of the U.S.
SystemBC facilitated anonymous communication between an infected system and a command-and-control servers, while Bumblebee, distributed mainly via phishing campaigns or compromised websites, was designed to enable the delivery and execution of further payloads on compromised systems.
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