Your ‘free’ VPN may very well be a malware bot
ISSUE 21.24 • 2024-06-10
PUBLIC DEFENDER
By Brian Livingston
Regulation-enforcement authorities, coordinating the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and related businesses in Germany, Singapore, and Thailand, have arrested the leaders of a worldwide botnet that relied on individuals downloading and putting in software program to create “free” digital non-public networks (VPNs).
Earlier than the arrests had been introduced on Could 29, 2024, greater than 19 million contaminated computer systems in some 190 international locations had been being utilized by hackers for credit-card fraud, Darkish Net operations, and loads else. Jailing the so-called 911 S5 organizers and shutting them down dismantled what FBI director Christopher Wray described as “possible the world’s largest botnet ever.”
Learn the complete story in our Plus E-newsletter (21.24.0, 2024-06-10).This story additionally seems in our public E-newsletter.
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