US EditionGlobal Botnet Dismantled as Four Indicted in $46 Million Cybercrime Scheme
- U.S. And Dutch authorities dismantled a botnet of thousands of hacked routers through a joint operation called Operation Moonlander.
- The botnet was built by infecting older, end-of-life routers with TheMoon malware to provide proxy services used by cybercriminals worldwide.
- The compromised devices formed a proxy network sold under the names Anyproxy and 5Socks, offering about 7,000 daily proxies that enabled anonymous illicit activities for cryptocurrency payments.
- The U.S. Department of Justice charged four individuals—three Russian nationals and one from Kazakhstan—for operating proxy services that generated over $46 million in revenue through monthly subscription fees that varied between approximately ten and one hundred ten dollars.
- The takedown dismantled a proxy network that endangered online safety by enabling cybercriminals to conceal their activities behind residential IP addresses, making detection by security systems more difficult.
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US and Netherlands seize network providers that helped hackers mask activities
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BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled In U.S. - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News
A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S. authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that’s powered by thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) and end-of-life (EoL) devices, enlisting them into a botnet for providing anonymity to malicious actors. In conjunction with the domain seizure, Russian nationals, Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, 37, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, 41, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin, 36,…
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