Dutch police and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) dismantled a botnet spanning at least 17 million compromised devices. The joint operation targeted infrastructure hosted on more than 200 servers located inside the Netherlands. The takedown followed a tip from a security researcher who alerted the NCSC. Authorities traced the command infrastructure to a Dutch hosting provider. Police from the cybercrime unit in The Hague seized several servers for investigation. The provider then disconnected the remaining systems after confirming their use in criminal activity. Devices in the network included computers, tablets, smartphones, routers, and IoT products such as security cameras. Owners had no idea their hardware routed malicious traffic. The NCSC stated in its announcement 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.…