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So he had the hacked account information there as well.
And we could see how many machines they had infected.
And we could basically see the entire campaign.
attack the entire fraud campaign from beginning to end right in that one screenshot.
And it was just a total encapsulation of all their fraud in one picture.
So when I was seeing IP addresses that I thought could identify the address of the attackers, it turns out they're using directional antennas to steal their neighbor's Wi-Fi.
So the addresses that I was seeing were very rarely their actual home address.
And I had to look at the data very, very carefully to understand when they slipped up and they weren't using their neighbor's stolen Wi-Fi.
They were actually using their own home IP address by mistake.
What we had estimated they'd made over the entire length of the operation, because they'd been operating for 10 years and we didn't have accounting for all of those years, but we could see a lot of the output and we were able to estimate over the given period that it was about 40 million.
Botnet reached a maximum of about 450,000 machines, and at any one particular time, they had hundreds of thousands of machines operating.
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