US DOJ Arrests YunHe Wang for Alleged $130M Botnet Scam

cryptonews.com:

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on May 29 an international law enforcement operation to disrupt the 911 S5 botnet, a major cybercriminal enterprise, which resulted in the arrest of YunHe Wang, a Chinese national, for his role in deploying malware and operating a proxy service used for various cybercrimes.

Wang’s botnet compromised millions of computers worldwide and facilitated numerous illegal activities, including financial fraud, identity theft, and child exploitation.

YunHe Wang, a 35-year-old national of the People’s Republic of China and a citizen-by-investment of St. Kitts and Nevis, was arrested on May 24. He’s facing charges related to the deployment of malware and the operation of a residential proxy service known as “911 S5.”

From 2014 through July 2022, Wang and his associates allegedly developed and spread malware to compromise millions of residential Windows computers globally. The compromised devices generated over 19 million unique IP addresses, with 613,841 in the United States. Cybercriminals paid for access to these infected IP addresses, generating millions of dollars in revenue for Wang.

According to the indictment , Wang and his associates are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide.

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