A botnet of over 17 million devices was dismantled

Authorities in the Netherlands said they had taken down a botnet that contained more than 17 million devices and was controlled by 200 servers by working with the police and the National Cyber ​​​​Security Center.

activities, he announced on Thursdayit happened after a security researcher reported the growing network to authorities. The museum was in the Netherlands.

It is used for criminal purposes

“Police subsequently seized several botnet servers from the hosts for investigation,” the NCSC said. “The botnet was taken off the internet by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes.”

According to a report According to the NL Times on Thursday, the botnet was linked to ASOCKS, a Russian company that provides sleep testing services. These services help people and organizations who want to hide their location or information by ordering online traffic from other people’s devices. Projections are often used for malicious or inappropriate purposes such as conducting DDoS attacks, using botnet-control servers, committing fraud, and scraping content.

Ars has not been able to independently verify the NL Times report, but the claims are clear. Thursday’s NCSC post linked to a separate post which the non-profit organization published the day before. This post has been edited to add a link to Thursday’s post. Wednesday’s article, titled “Proxies pose a major threat to digital security in the Netherlands,” warned: “Domestic proxies are used for anonymity and to avoid location restrictions.”