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#5 BleepingComputer general July 03, 2026 at 17:50 UTC

NetNut proxy network disrupted, 2 million infected devices cut off

By Ionut Ilascu

AI Summary

A joint operation involving Google disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network that had compromised approximately 2 million Android devices — including smart TVs and streaming boxes — routing malicious traffic through them. The takedown severs access to a large-scale proxy infrastructure used to anonymize attacks and highlights continued abuse of consumer IoT devices as proxy nodes.

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