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New, breaking: FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fbi-seizes-netnut-proxy-platform-popa-botnet/

#popa #botnet #cybercrime #residentialproxies #netnut

A graphic depicting NetNut's proxy infrastructure shows a NetNut user (proxy customer) accessing a NetNut gateway, which then relays the request to one of many NetNut control servers and through to the Popa botnet victim and on to the targeted website or destination (and back of course).

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A seizure notice from the FBI features the seals of the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS-CI, and the logos of Shadowserver, Lumen and Google.

This domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with federal law as part
of a law enforcement action, taken in coordination with the Department of Justice and the Internal
Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, against the NetNut residential proxy platform, its administrators,
and its subscribers.

The FBI also acknowledges that Google, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, and the Shadowserver Foundation, with
assistance from their partners, have disrupted other domains and infrastructure used by the NetNut
residential proxy platform and its subscribers in separate and independent operations pursuant to civil
action and violations of terms of service, respectively.

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New, exclusive, by me: LG to Ban Residential Proxy Providers from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/

#smarttv #lg #residentialproxies #spur #security

A Pac-Man smart TV app from Bright Data offers users the choice between viewing ads in the game or agreeing to allow their TV to serve as a residential proxy node. The image features a picture of Pac-Man celebrating, and some ghosts on the right. It says: Play Pac-Man without ads! For an ad free experience, please allow web indexing by Bright Data to use your device's free resources and IP address to download web data from the Internet. None of your personal information is collected, except your IP address. Bright Data does not track you. Bright Data may continue running in the background even after you close the app. Scan the QR code to learn more about Bright Data policy and ethical usage. Image: Spur.us.

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