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Operators of 911 S5 residential proxy service subjected to US sanctions
Operators of 911 S5 residential proxy service subjected to US sanctions
Chinese nationals Yunhe Wang, Jingping Liu, and Yanni Zheng have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for operating the residential proxy service 911 S5, which was a botnet comprised of over 19 million residential IP addresses that had been used to support various cybercrime groups' COVID-19 relief scams and bomb threats, Ars Technica reports.
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·scmagazine.com·
Operators of 911 S5 residential proxy service subjected to US sanctions
Operation PANDORA shuts down 12 phone fraud call centres
Operation PANDORA shuts down 12 phone fraud call centres
Operation PANDORA started with a bank teller in Freiburg, Germany. When in December 2023 a customer asked to withdraw over EUR 100 000 in cash, the bank teller grew suspicious and quickly learned the customer had fallen victim to a ‘fake police officer scam’. He informed the real police, which prevented the victim from handing the money over to the...
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·europol.europa.eu·
Operation PANDORA shuts down 12 phone fraud call centres
Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8 million mining scheme
Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8 million mining scheme
The 29-year-old individual was apprehended in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on 9 January. Three properties were searched to gather evidence against the main suspect. The arrest comes after months of intensive collaboration between Ukrainian authorities, Europol and a cloud provider, who worked tirelessly to identify and locate the individual behind the widespread cryptojacking operation.The suspect is believed to have mined over USD...
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·europol.europa.eu·
Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8 million mining scheme