FBI busts alleged mastermind behind massive network of hijacked devices
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Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson has the latest as law enforcement arrests a suspect for creating and running huge botnet scheme.
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Wang allegedly created a system that allowed cybercriminals to mask their identities and commit crimes. He did that by creating and disseminating a botnet called 911 S5 to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide from 2014 through July 2022, according to the DOJ. These devices were associated with more than 19 million unique IP addresses, including 613,841 IP addresses located in the U.S.