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Re:How the FBI took down the Qakbot botnet by parl_match on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:45PM (#37355989)
They said they retrieved IP addresses and "routing information", doing fine grained geo ip lookups is impossible, but the accuracy of country of origin is very high, especially in the US
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Re:How the FBI took down the Qakbot botnet by throwitaway156 on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:31PM (#37357247)
> geo ip lookups is impossible

impossible is the wrong word here, its just unnecessary. The Feds can (and do) definitely contact domestic & international ISPs to perform near 100% accurate lookups.

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