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  "path": "/story/26/06/01/0336226/botnet-of-more-than-17-million-devices-dismantled?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed",
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  "textContent": "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 for investigation,\" the NCSC said. \"The botnet was taken offline by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes.\" According to a report Thursday by the NL Times, the botnet was linked to ASOCKS, a Russia-based company that provides residential proxy services. These services cater to people and organizations who want to obscure their locations or identities by proxying their Internet traffic through third-party devices. Proxy services are often used for illicit or unethical purposes such as performing DDoS attacks, running botnet command-and-control servers, operating phishing operations, and scraping website content. [...] It's unclear how the 17 million devices controlled by the botnet taken down by the Dutch police came to be that way.\n\nRead more of this story at Slashdot.",
  "title": "Botnet of More Than 17 Million Devices Dismantled",
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