FBI Dismantles "Popa" Botnet and NetNut Infrastructure in Major Cyber-Crackdown

In a coordinated strike against the global residential proxy ecosystem, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supported by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation division and a coalition of private-sector technology giants, has successfully seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut. The service, a sprawling residential proxy network operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm…

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The Invisible Hijack: Inside the Massive ‘Popa’ Botnet Fueling the Global AI Scraping Economy

For the past four years, a digital shadow has loomed over millions of living rooms worldwide. A sprawling, Android-based botnet known as Popa has quietly commandeered consumer TV streaming boxes, transforming them into relay points for massive, global-scale data scraping, advertising fraud, and unauthorized account access. This week, a multi-firm investigation—involving researchers from Qurium, Synthient,…

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