How to tell if a VPN app added your Windows device to a botnet
This post will help users find out if their Windows device has been added to the 911 S5 botnet by a malicious VPN application
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Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:21:12 +0000
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely the world’s largest botnet ever.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime.
Read moreA Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:11:12 +0000
For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The proxy service says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install the proxy software. But new research shows 911 has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own.
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