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The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet

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Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2024-06-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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The U.S. Justice Department dismantled the 911 S5 botnet, arrested alleged operator YunHe Wang in Singapore, and seized domains, servers, and approximately $30M in assets; the botnet had reportedly compromised millions of residential Windows systems (over 19 million unique IPs) and was used to sell access to infected devices.

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