Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
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What happened
This KrebsOnSecurity feed (Apr–May 2026) details multiple high-impact cyber incidents and law-enforcement actions: the Netherlands seized ~800 servers and arrested two co-owners of hosting firms accused of enabling Russian intelligence operations; a CISA contractor publicly published AWS GovCloud keys and internal build/deploy artifacts on GitHub, prompting a congressional inquiry as CISA scrambles to contain leaked credentials; the alleged 23‑year‑old Kimwolf botmaster was arrested in Canada and charged in Canada and the U.S. after a large IoT botnet-driven DDoS and harassment campaign; an ed
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