Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

The U.S. Treasury and DOJ actions target operators of 911 S5, a botnet-powered residential proxy service that infected hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs and sold proxy access to cybercriminals; the service is tied to billions in fraudulent losses (including pandemic relief and EIDL fraud), money laundering via virtual currency and real estate, and was later observed resurfacing as Cloud Router/PaladinVPN.