May 30, 2024 at 07:54AM The US Justice Department arrested a Chinese national for allegedly running the 911 S5 botnet. The Treasury Department also sanctioned three individuals and three companies linked to the botnet’s creation. The botnet, responsible for infecting 19 million Windows devices, has been disrupted through an international operation involving multiple countries and … Read more
May 29, 2024 at 01:17PM The US Justice Department, with international partners, dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested Chinese national YunHe Wang. Wang and conspirators pushed malware onto devices using VPN apps, creating a network of millions of residential Windows computers. Wang collected approximately $99 million by selling access to the proxied IP … Read more
November 6, 2023 at 01:00PM An updated version of the information stealer malware Jupyter has resurfaced with new tactics to establish a persistent presence on compromised systems. The malware leverages PowerShell command modifications and signatures of private keys to appear as a legitimately signed file. It utilizes manipulated search engine optimization and malvertising to trick … Read more
November 5, 2023 at 10:40AM A proxy botnet known as ‘Socks5Systemz’ is infecting computers worldwide through malware loaders. It has infected 10,000 devices so far. The malware turns infected computers into traffic-forwarding proxies for malicious or anonymous traffic, which it sells to subscribers for a fee ranging from $1 to $140 per day in cryptocurrency. … Read more