Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/law-enforcement-operation-takes-down-22000-malicious-ip-addresses-worldwide/

Operation Synergia II took aim at phishing, ransomware, and information stealing.

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iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Law enforcement took down 1 000 addresses.

That title doesn’t make any sense.

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- BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  The operation, which ran from the beginning of April through the end of August, resulted in the arrest of 41 people and the takedown of 1,037 servers and other infrastructure running on 22,000 IP addresses.
  
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  - iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Let me unplug my router, then plug it back in. I’ll have a new IP address.
    
    This is stupid reporting.
    
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- AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  “Infrastructure running on 22k ip addresses”. Either the authors are dumb, or they’re writing for a dumb audience.
  
  Correct on both.
  
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