Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches

Dutch police and the NCSC-NL disrupted a large botnet that comprised at least 17 million infected devices and 200 servers located in the Netherlands; hosting providers seized servers and shut down the infrastructure. The report also warns about the rising misuse of residential proxy networks for criminal purposes and notes a national decline in reported cyberattacks, which is attributed in part to broader adoption of multi-factor authentication.