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Low-Impact Disinformation Campaigns Based in Russia, China, Iran, IsraelOpenAI said it disrupted covert influence operations including from China and Russia that attempted to use its artificial intelligence services to manipulate public opinion. The operations do not appear to have made much impact on audience engagement or in spreading manipulative messages.

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations (IO) originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity

DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," comprising 19 million compromised Windows machines used by its operators to reap millions of dollars over the last decade.…

The U.S. Justice Department and international partners dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, its administrator. [...]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one's Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later.

Treasury Department Says Botnet Users Committed Fraud, Made Bomb ThreatsThe U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Chinese national Yunhe Wang for his role in directing the 911 S5 botnet, which uses hacked residential computers as proxies and is often used to commit fraud. The government also sanctioned a co-conspirator and a real estate business associate.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a massive botnet controlling a residential proxy service known as "911 S5." [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a massive botnet controlling a residential proxy service known as "911 S5." [...]