120
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
(arstechnica.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
120 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
85020 readers
1440 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
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...