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US arrests man allegedly behind enormous botnet that enabled cyberattacks and fraud
The addresses were allegedly used for pandemic relief fraud.
Thirty-five-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang allegedly helped run an international botnet that deployed VPN programs to infect more than 19 million IP addresses around the world. The botnet, known as 911 S5, “facilitated cyber-attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations,” according to a statement from Attorney General Merrick Garland. The scheme sold 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,” said Matthew S. Axelrod, Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security assistant secretary for export enforcement.
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