{"id":238022,"date":"2026-05-30T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dutch-govt-disrupts-malware-botnet-with-17-million-infected-devices"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:26:49","slug":"dutch-govt-disrupts-malware-botnet-with-17-million-infected-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dutch-govt-disrupts-malware-botnet-with-17-million-infected-devices","title":{"rendered":"Dutch govt disrupts malware botnet with 17 million infected devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dutch-govt-disrupts-malware-botnet-with-17-million-infected-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of 17 million devices and seized more than 200 servers at a local provider that supported the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The action was carried out following an investigation from the Police in collaboration with the country\u2019s cybersecurity agency, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).<\/p>\n<p>According to the authorities, the seized servers controlled \u201ccomputers, tablets, and smartphones to carry out cyberattacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of 17 million devices and seized more than 200 servers at a local provider that supported the operation. The action was carried out following an investigation from the Police in collaboration with the country\u2019s cybersecurity agency, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). According to the authorities, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}