AUTHORITIES ARREST MAN ALLEGEDLY RUNNING “LIKELY WORLD'S LARGEST EVER" CYBERCRIME BOTNET

An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation and financial fraud including pandemic relief scams.

The U.S. Department of Justice quoted FBI Director Christopher Wray as saying this week that the "911 S5" botnet — a network of malware-infected computers in nearly 200 countries - was likely the world's largest.

Justice said in a news release that Yunhe Wang, 35, was arrested May 24. It did not say where and department officials did not immediately respond to a query on that.