Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices

The Dutch National Police and the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have taken offline 200 servers controlling a botnet of 17 million devices, the law enforcement agency announced on Thursday. The investigation was launched after the NCSC received a report by a security researcher, and showed that the botnet consisted of at least 17 million infected devices – computers, mobile phones, IoT devices, routers, etc. – and that the 200 servers used to host … More →

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