<ul><li>FBI and Dutch police have seized and shut down botnet services involving hacked internet-connected devices, including routers.</li><li>U.S. prosecutors indicted four individuals, including three Russians and one Kazakhstan national, for hacking into routers and running the botnet under the guise of legitimate proxy services.</li><li>The accused individuals targeted vulnerable internet-connected devices to build a botnet, offering access through services like Anyproxy and 5Socks and making over $46 million from selling botnet access.</li><li>Black Lotus Labs assisted in tracking the proxy networks used for malicious activities, with the botnet offering anonymity for cybercriminals and having about 1,000 weekly active proxies in over 80 countries.</li></ul>

FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers

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