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Global police shut down malware group ‘targeting millions’

A GLOBAL police operation shut down the servers of one of the world’s largest malware platforms that targeted millions of victims, the EU’s judicial arm said on Tuesday (Oct 29).

The Central Investigation Bureau, in cooperation with US authorities, says it has seized at least 88 million baht of assets such as cash, luxury watches, a car and land deeds of Wang from searches of four locations in Chon Buri province

Thailand probes cybercrime ring’s assets of over one billion baht

Thai police are probing more than one billion baht (S$37 million) of properties and assets that an alleged superhacker and his associates channelled into the country from their cybercrime activities.

At the end of proceedings, the judge granted the prosecution’s request for Wang Yunhe to be remanded a further seven days.

Man behind global malware network objects to extradition to US after arrest in Singapore

THE Chinese national arrested in Singapore for allegedly running a network of zombie computers which allowed criminals to commit a myriad of offences has objected to his extradition to the US.

The charges against Wang are for allegedly deploying malware, and creating and operating a residential proxy service known as “911 S5”, a botnet that facilitated cyber-attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations, according to the DOJ.

Alleged superhacking mastermind has Singapore work visa, posh condo, Ferrari Spider

The 35-year-old China national arrested in Singapore was amassing riches by offering cybercriminals access to millions of infected devices for a fee