Authorities Dismantle Longstanding Botnet Selling Hacked Routers

Friday, May 9, 2025, 1:22 pm

U.S. and Dutch law enforcement have jointly dismantled a botnet that, over two decades, built residential proxy networks from hacked routers. The crackdown on operations like Anyproxy and 5socks underlines persistent cybercrime – and one might wonder if the perpetrators ever imagined their “hustle” would take so long.

bleepingcomputer.com / Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. [...]

techcrunch.com / FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers

U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.

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