Dutch cops liberate 17M devices from botnet’s clutches
Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands
Dutch police say they dismantled a large botnet this week comprising at least 17 million infected devices.
After being tipped off by a researcher at the Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL), police began an investigation, which resulted in the discovery of 200 servers underpinning the botnet's infrastructure located in the country.
Cybercrime specialists at The Hague Police Unit seized a number of servers from a hosting provider for further analysis, and the provider then shut down the botnet after realizing it was being used for "criminal purposes."
Botnets can be used for various types of cybercrime, but officials did not say how this botnet in particular was used. Police merely stated the general types of abuse, which include phishing, launching DDoS attacks, and online fraud.
Neither the police nor the NCSC-NL revealed the botnet's name –...
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