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17 million strong botnet of compromised devices dismantled by Dutch authorities

  • Sead Fadilpašić--TechRadar
  • published date: 2026-06-01 13:05:00 UTC

The botnet is theorized to be related to Asocks, with the possibility the proxy network has bitten the dust.

<ul><li>Dutch NCSC and police dismantled a 17M‑device botnet by taking down 200 servers </li><li>Asocks, previously tied to free Android VPN apps and promoted on Russian hacking forums, offered resid… [+2527 chars]