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Dutch Police Dismantle 17 Million-Device Botnet Masquerading as Commercial Proxy Service
Operation marks largest residential proxy takedown on record, exposing how consumer IoT devices become infrastructure for state-adjacent cybercrime.
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Chinese state actors are turning millions of consumer IoT devices into embedded espionage infrastructure
State-linked APT groups have weaponized 1.2 million routers, cameras, and smart appliances into persistent botnet nodes that bypass perimeter security and exploit the impossibility of patching consumer hardware at scale.