Ferraris, Bomb Threats, Billions: FBI Nabs Massive Cybercrime Kingpin

Leah Millis/ReutersYunHe Wang, the alleged head of the so-called 911S5 cybercrime ring, won’t be driving his Ferrari or flexing his Patek Phillipe anymore after the accused kingpin was finally nabbed by the FBI. According to a newly unsealed 22-page indictment against the Chinese national released Wednesday, Wang controlled one of the world’s most complex cybercrime networks, with a presence in nearly every country, for a more than a decade.Wang’s scheme worked through backdoors established he established through various VPN services, the feds say. He operated multiple VPN services such as DewVPN, MaskVPN, PaladinVPN, ShineVPN, ProxyGate and ShieldVPN that allegedly collected data, including financial and personal details, by hijacking 19 million unique IP addresses. The data was then sold, the indictment alleges.Read more at The Daily Beast.