{"id":14655,"date":"2024-05-30T18:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/europol-and-us-seize-website-domains-luxury-goods-in-6bn-cybercrime-bust\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T16:37:16","slug":"europol-and-us-seize-website-domains-luxury-goods-in-6bn-cybercrime-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/europol-and-us-seize-website-domains-luxury-goods-in-6bn-cybercrime-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol and US seize website domains, luxury goods in $6bn cybercrime bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018World\u2019s largest botnet\u2019 \u2013 spread through infected emails \u2013 taken down through coordinated police action among several countries<\/p>\n<p>US authorities announced on Thursday that they had dismantled the \u201cworld\u2019s largest botnet ever\u201d, allegedly responsible for nearly $6bn in Covid insurance fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice arrested a Chinese national, YunHe Wang, 35, and seized luxury watches, more than 20 properties and a Ferrari. The networks allegedly operated by Wang and others, dubbed \u201c911 S5\u201d, spread ransomware via infected emails from 2014 to 2022. Wang allegedly accrued a fortune of $99m by licensing his malware to other criminals. The network allegedly pulled in $5.9bn in fraudulent unemployment claims from Covid relief programs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/botnet-arrests-covid-insurance-fraud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1354298c3886e44425363a9a08a94f337abc45a8\/0_0_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3df8283e08012f58867e7b41c0cc2539\" title=\"Europol and US seize website domains, luxury goods in $6bn cybercrime bust\" \/>\u2018World\u2019s largest botnet\u2019 \u2013 spread through infected emails \u2013 taken down through coordinated police action among several countries<br \/>\nUS authorities announced on Thursday that they had dismantled the \u201cworld\u2019s largest botnet ever\u201d, allegedly responsible for nearly $6bn in Covid insurance fraud.<br \/>\nThe Department of Justice arrested a Chinese national, YunHe Wang, 35, and seized luxury watches, more than 20 properties and a Ferrari. The networks allegedly operated by Wang and others, dubbed \u201c911 S5\u201d, spread ransomware via infected emails from 2014 to 2022. Wang allegedly accrued a fortune of $99m by licensing his malware to other criminals. The network allegedly pulled in $5.9bn in fraudulent unemployment claims from Covid relief programs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018World\u2019s largest botnet\u2019 \u2013 spread through infected emails \u2013 taken down through coordinated police action among several countries US authorities announced on Thursday that they had dismantled the \u201cworld\u2019s largest botnet ever\u201d, allegedly responsible for nearly $6bn in Covid insurance fraud. The Department of Justice arrested a Chinese national, YunHe Wang, 35, and seized luxury &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/europol-and-us-seize-website-domains-luxury-goods-in-6bn-cybercrime-bust\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Europol and US seize website domains, luxury goods in $6bn cybercrime bust<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}