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Krebs on Security
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July 02, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
By BrianKrebs
AI Summary
The FBI, working with Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), Lumen, and other industry partners, seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut — a residential proxy service operated by NASDAQ-listed Israeli company Alarum Technologies — and disrupted the underlying Popa botnet, which had compromised at least 2 million home devices. The action followed KrebsOnSecurity reporting two weeks prior linking NetNut to the botnet. This is a significant law enforcement action targeting the infrastructure that enables anonymized malicious traffic at scale.
Relevance score: 88.0/100
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