{"id":258,"date":"2024-05-29T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=258"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:43:13","slug":"is-your-computer-part-of-the-largest-botnet-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/is-your-computer-part-of-the-largest-botnet-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Computer Part of \u2018The Largest Botnet Ever?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong>U.S. Department of Justice<\/strong>\u00a0(DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of\u00a0<strong>911 S5<\/strong>, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called \u201clikely the world\u2019s largest\u00a0<strong>botnet<\/strong>\u00a0ever.\u201d The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various \u201cfree VPN\u201d products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/is-your-computer-part-of-the-largest-botnet-ever\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2024\/05\/is-your-computer-part-of-the-largest-botnet-ever\/\">Is Your Computer Part of \u2018The Largest Botnet Ever?\u2019 \u2013 Krebs on Security<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Is Your Computer Part of \u2018The Largest Botnet Ever?\u2019<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0U.S. Department of Justice\u00a0(DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of\u00a0911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called \u201clikely the world\u2019s largest\u00a0botnet\u00a0ever.\u201d The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}