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Dutch authorities have dismantled a botnet comprising at least 17 million infected devices, including computers, smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices.

More than 200 servers in the Netherlands supported the operation. Police seized a subset of the infrastructure, and the hosting provider subsequently took the network offline.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/dutch-authorities-dismantle-botnet.html

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