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Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever' (go.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," comprising 19 million compromised Windows machines used by its operators to reap millions of dollars over the last decade.…

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[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

$100M from 19 million PCs

so they stole $5 from each person? lmao

[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Read the article:

They sold access to the botnet.

Also the botnet was used to acquire:

Coronavirus aid relief claims, "resulting in the loss of billions of dollars to the US government."