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You bought a smart TV on Amazon.
Wanted to watch Netflix.
The TV already had malware on it before it shipped.
That malware turns your home internet connection into a proxy exit node.
So cybercriminals can route their attacks through your address.
And your address gets blamed.
Two million home devices.
Smart TVs. Streaming boxes. Android TV.
All part of the NetNut botnet called Popa.
In one week in June Google caught 316 different hacker groups using those exit nodes.
Password sprays. Espionage ops. Ransomware reconnaissance.
Coming from your home IP.
While your internet bill was paying for the bandwidth.
NetNut is owned by a publicly traded Israeli company called Alarum Technologies.
On Nasdaq.
They sold this proxy access to resellers.
Who sold it to other resellers.
Who sold it to criminals.
The FBI just seized their domains.
Google disabled their accounts.
Alarum’s legal counsel said they will fully cooperate.
Your home network has been a crime scene for months.
And the only way to know is if someone raids a datacenter.
The TV still works.
Netflix is still loading.
The backdoor is still open.
International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest
❗️ BREAKING: Over 2 million hijacked consumer devices, including smart TVs and streaming boxes, were quietly acting as residential proxy exit nodes. All of them, per Google, were part of the NetNut residential proxy network. Google, working with the FBI and Lumen, has moved to dismantle the NetNut network. In a single week, Google tracked 316 distinct threat clusters, including espionage groups, routing attacks and password sprays through suspected NetNut exit nodes.
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