"US Government Sanctions Cybercrime Gang Behind Massive 911 S5 Botnet"

The US Treasury Department sanctioned three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a botnet controlling a residential proxy service called "911 S5." About two years ago, researchers at the Canadian University of Sherbrooke discovered that this illegitimate residential proxy service offered free Virtual Private Network (VPN) services as a lure to install malware that adds potential victims' IP addresses to the 911 S5 botnet. The botnet controlled 120,000 residential proxy nodes worldwide, which communicated with multiple Command-and-Control (C2) servers located offshore or hosted within a cloud server. This article continues to discuss the 911 S5 botnet and the sanctioned cybercrime network linked to it.

Bleeping Computer reports "US Government Sanctions Cybercrime Gang Behind Massive 911 S5 Botnet"

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