Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
2026-05-29T01:23:28Z•074083e08cb2f8c0d5a9d99225cd86801ee79032bf178d961fc5b73ea174ba81
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What happened
A span of high-impact security incidents: Dutch authorities seized ~800 servers and arrested two hosting co-owners for operating infrastructure used by Russian intelligence for cyberattacks, influence and disinformation. A CISA contractor publicly exposed AWS GovCloud keys and extensive internal secrets on GitHub, triggering congressional inquiries and an ongoing credential-containment effort. Law enforcement arrested the alleged Kimwolf IoT botnet operator and charged him in the U.S. and Canada; a separate anti‑DDoS vendor was found to have enabled a botnet that launched massive attacks on IS
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- 2026-05-29T01:23:28Z
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