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1015 Botnet of More Than 17 Million Devices Dismantled

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/01/2026 11:00 EDT

Botnet of More Than 17 Million Devices Dismantled

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was located in the Netherlands. "The police then seized several botnet servers from a hosting provider.

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