Yesterday, news came out about an arrest after Tuesdays articles about endictments. Cyberscoop has an article out titled Chinese national arrested for operating proxy service linked to billions in cybercrime which we’ll cover first.
It covers a lot of what other outlets including The Guardian writing a report on it as well.
This was so big that Bleeping Computer wrote several articles on the subject.
YunHe Wang was responsible for the creation of this massive botnet. All of the articles I have read include this 19 million plus IP address count and this is definitely something that will be talked about for awhile.
Wang was arrested May 24 in Singapore, and U.S. authorities are working with their local counterparts to extradite him, Leatherman said. Wang faces charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, substantive computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the DOJ. He faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.
A total of three people were sanctioned. The other two include Jingping Liu and Yanni Zheng.
Besides the economic issues which included 47 thousand fraudulent economic injury loan applications, 4 million dollars of watches and several cars were also seized.
The FBI also created a page where you can determine if you were part of this massive botnet.
The next two are related, and come from Brian Krebs. One talks about the indictment and updated with the arrest as stated above and the second deal with whether you’re part of the botnet or not.
The articles are: Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet and Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’
This botnet has been around since 2015, says the second article. It sold access to Windows machines by getting their product in to the hands of unsuspecting people probably looking for other things.
All of these articles have similar content, so I’m not going to cover them all, but this is definitely the biggest set of stories for this week.
Other publications will cover it, see if there is anything we don’t have.
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