Dutch Police Free 17 Million Devices After Tracing 200 Botnet Servers

4 articles · Updated · The Register · May 28

Dutch police said 17 million infected devices were cut loose from a mystery botnet after investigators traced about 200 command servers to the Netherlands.
A hosting provider then pulled the plug on those servers, disrupting the botnet’s control infrastructure rather than relying on device-by-device cleanup.
The operation points to a large, still-unidentified criminal network whose reach extended to millions of compromised systems.
The case underscores how botnet takedowns often hinge on finding and disabling centralized hosting points, even when the operators themselves remain unknown.

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