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Cheap TV streaming sticks are secretly clicking ads and pretending to be phones

Researchers say around 38,000 H96 Android TV boxes are pulling double duty as ad-fraud bots and residential proxies, funnelling roughly $50,000 a day to a mainland China outfit called the Fengwo Group.

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Fake 7-Zip Downloads Are Quietly Turning Home PCs Into Criminal Middlemen

A group Infoblox calls Lurking Lizard has been running a rogue proxy service from 230+ lookalike sites since 2022, hiding the malware inside fake copies of the popular 7-Zip file compression tool.

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Google and FBI cut off NetNut, a two-million-device botnet hidden inside smart TVs

The residential proxy service let hundreds of criminal and spy groups route attacks through ordinary homes.

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Google and FBI Shut Down NetNut, a Criminal Anonymity Network Built on Millions of Hijacked Home Devices

NetNut rented out access to infected home and business routers so criminals and foreign spies could hide their tracks. A joint operation has disrupted it.

3 min read
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Google and FBI Kneecap NetNut, Cutting Millions of Home Devices From Proxy Pool

Google's Threat Intelligence Group says a joint operation with the FBI and Lumen has stripped millions of infected home devices from NetNut, also tracked as Popa.

3 min read
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The Popa Botnet: When Your $40 Streaming Box Moonlights as a Residential Proxy

Researchers tie a four-year-old Android TV box botnet to NetNut, the residential proxy arm of NASDAQ-listed Alarum Technologies. The company disputes the framing.

3 min read
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Dutch Police Take Down C2 Infrastructure Behind 17-Million-Device Botnet

Authorities in the Netherlands seized command-and-control servers powering a botnet spanning infected computers, phones, and tablets — infrastructure allegedly rented out as a residential proxy network for criminal operations.

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