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Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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Isn’t the botnet itself a criminal intrusion? I mean, it’s unlikely that the owners of the exit nodes were even aware they were part of it.
It sounds like people installed one of those free proxy things that's actually malware. I'm not sure I'd call that "intrusion" but it's certainly illegal.
I mean, it might've not been illegal. It was probably hidden in some T&C somewhere. That's the trade-off. You get a free privacy proxy, they get a free residential proxy endpoint.
Deploying botnet software is usually always illegal, regardless of consent.
Dang I was hoping there would be some surplus hardware...