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A Chinese national living in St. Kitts and Nevis via a citizenship-by-investment program was charged with building and selling access to "911 S5," a botnet consisting of millions of compromised IP addresses that cybercriminals subsequently used to bilk nearly $6 billion from financial institutions, credit-card companies and federal lending programs. More The Council of the EU, which represents the bloc's 27 national governments, definitively adopted a single anti-money laundering rulebook and the establishment of a bloc-wide AML regulator, The Wall Street Journal reported. More Swiss authorities fined UBS $55,000 for ignoring thousands of transactional alerts raised by the potentially illicit transfer...