NCSC and Dutch police disrupt global botnet controlled via Netherlands-based servers (opens in new tab)

The Cybercrime Team of the Police Unit The Hague, together with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), says it has successfully dismantled a large Asocks botnet and taken it offline.The botnet was made up of at least 17 million compromised consumer devices around the world, including computers, routers, tablets, smartphones, and internet-connected devices such as smart security cameras.Investigators identified 200 servers used to run the infrastructure, all of which were physically based ...