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Google Disrupts NetNut Proxy Network Using 2M Home Devices

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Hacker News ·

Google, with FBI and Lumen, degraded NetNut's residential proxy network that turned 2 million home devices into rented relays. The operation reduced the pool of usable devices by millions, targeting a network used for anonymizing malicious traffic. NetNut, also tracked as Popa, is now significantly less effective for cybercriminals.

Meridian48 take
This takedown highlights the growing role of tech giants in disrupting cybercrime infrastructure, but the cat-and-mouse game with proxy networks is far from over.
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