{"id":13957,"date":"2024-05-31T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-arrests-creator-of-botnet-that-amassed-over-130-million-in-cryptocurrencies\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:02:37","slug":"us-arrests-creator-of-botnet-that-amassed-over-130-million-in-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-arrests-creator-of-botnet-that-amassed-over-130-million-in-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"US Arrests Creator of Botnet That Amassed Over $130 Million in Cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/911-s5-botnet-dismantled-and-its-administrator-arrested-coordinated-international-operation\">has dismantled<\/a> the major 911 S5 botnet, responsible for a series of cyberattacks and fraud incidents. The network&#8217;s creator, 35-year-old Yunhe Wang, a citizen of China and Saint Kitts and Nevis, has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to the case materials, from 2014 to 2022, Wang compromised a million home computers in 200 countries by distributing free VPN services with backdoors. He subsequently integrated these devices into a single botnet with over 19 million IP addresses and sold access to it to third-party cybercriminals for cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment states that the botnet facilitated a range of crimes, including financial fraud, identity theft, and child exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainalysis.com\/blog\/911-s5-botnet-arrest-ofac-sanctions\/\">Chainalysis<\/a> reported that wallets associated with Wang contained a total of more than $130 million in various digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have seized 23 domains on 70 servers, as well as assets amounting to $30 million.<\/p>\n<p><span data-descr=\"The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> has imposed financial sanctions against Wang, his accomplices, and the organizations under his control.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported on a botnet that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cybersecurity-updates-bitcoin-botnet-enhancements-and-gru-spy-network-disruption\">uses the Bitcoin blockchain<\/a> as a backup command-and-control center, making it resilient to shutdown attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice has dismantled the major 911 S5 botnet, responsible for a series of cyberattacks and fraud incidents. The network&#8217;s creator, 35-year-old Yunhe Wang, a citizen of China and Saint Kitts and Nevis, has been arrested. According to the case materials, from 2014 to 2022, Wang compromised a million home computers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1573,1154,26],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-botnet","tag-crimes","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}