NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet
Crims often use residential proxy networks to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); In the same way that other residential proxy networks expand their pool of enrolled devices, NetNut distributed its own SDK via these devices. Not only does it help feed the cybercrime ecosystem, but it can also lead to vulnerabilities elsewhere in home networks.NetNut offered its own standalone proxy networks, as well as mobile and datacenter proxies, and a slew of scrapers and datasets.
- ▪Crims often use residential proxy networks to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); In the same way that other residential proxy networks expand their pool of enrolled devices, NetNut distributed its own SDK via these devices
- ▪Not only does it help feed the cybercrime ecosystem, but it can also lead to vulnerabilities elsewhere in home networks.NetNut offered its own standalone proxy networks, as well as mobile and datacenter proxies, and a slew of scrapers and d
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); Security NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet Other residential proxy brands may rely on the same network Connor Jones Connor Jones Cybersecurity reporter Published fri 3 Jul 2026 // 13:03 UTC Tech companies working with US law enforcement "significantly degraded" the NetNut residential proxy network as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt the tools cybercriminals use to conceal their activity, say researchers.The work was carried out by Google, Lumen,…
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