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.

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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.