{"id":259931,"date":"2026-05-30T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:30:12","slug":"botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Botnet of 17 Million Devices Dismantled in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192890\/malware\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands.html?amp\">Botnet of 17 Million Devices Dismantled in the Netherlands<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192890\/malware\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands.html?amp\">https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192890\/malware\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands.html?amp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 04:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityaffairs.com\">securityaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><h2>Botnet of 17 Million Devices Dismantled in the Netherlands<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span> Pierluigi Paganini<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/themes\/security_affairs\/images\/clock-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> May 30, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dutch-police-ddos.png?fit=1200%2C442&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dutch authorities seized 200 servers running a 17-million-device botnet linked to proxy service Asocks.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of at least 17 million devices and seized more than 200 servers at a local provider that supported the operation. Infected devices included computers, tablets, and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The action was carried out following an investigation from the Police in collaboration with the country\u2019s cybersecurity agency, the National Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Centre (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe network was discovered following a report from a security researcher to the NCSC. The NCSC subsequently informed the police. Together, they took up the report and conducted an investigation.\u201d reads the press release published by NCSC. \u201cThe investigation revealed that the botnet consisted of at least 17 million infected devices and that the 200 servers used to host the infrastructure were located in the Netherlands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A security researcher uncovered the botnet after reporting it to the Dutch NCSC, which worked with police to investigate. Police seized several servers for forensic analysis, while the hosting provider shut down the infrastructure after confirming it was being used for criminal operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Netherland Times, the botnet is linked to ASOCKS, \u00a0a residential proxy seller that provides services designed to hide users\u2019 identities and locations online. These services can be abused for cybercrime, including DDoS attacks, phishing campaigns, botnet operations, and web scraping. Dutch authorities warned that residential proxies make malicious traffic appear legitimate, complicating detection and mitigation efforts because attacks can seem to originate from normal local internet users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Asocks network operated as a \u201cresidential proxy service,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192890\/malware\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands.html?amp\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botnet of 17 Million Devices Dismantled in the Netherlands https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192890\/malware\/botnet-of-17-million-devices-dismantled-in-the-netherlands.html?amp Publish Date: 2026-05-30 04:16:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dutch-police-ddos.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,32,25],"class_list":["post-259931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-malware","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259933,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259931\/revisions\/259933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}