“The botnet was taken offline by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes.”
Isn’t the botnet itself a criminal intrusion? I mean, it’s unlikely that the owners of the exit nodes were even aware they were part of it.
It sounds like people installed one of those free proxy things that’s actually malware. I’m not sure I’d call that “intrusion” but it’s certainly illegal.
I mean, it might’ve not been illegal. It was probably hidden in some T&C somewhere. That’s the trade-off. You get a free privacy proxy, they get a free residential proxy endpoint.
Deploying botnet software is usually always illegal, regardless of consent.
I thought Lemmy.ml had been quiet recently.
I don’t think there are many bots on Lemmy. If I were a betting man, though, I’d wager that the 10-day-old account complaining about the .ml instance is the bot
