Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
2026-07-11T19:23:29Z•40658edc7cfca1566d6613778df5ecf86e33f86d72d7166bd08e9a34d8e9d29d
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What happened
A set of KrebsOnSecurity reports from May–Jul 2026 highlighting multiple large-scale cyber incidents and law-enforcement actions: the FBI seized hundreds of domains for NetNut after links were found between the NetNut residential-proxy service (operated by Alarum Technologies) and the Popa Android-based botnet that hijacked millions of consumer TV boxes; researchers tied Popa to widespread ad fraud, account takeover and scraping; Dutch authorities seized ~800 servers and arrested hosting co-owners accused of enabling Russian cyber operations; Canadian and U.S. authorities arrested an alleged ‘
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- krebs_on_security
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- 40658edc7cfca1566d6613778df5ecf86e33f86d72d7166bd08e9a34d8e9d29d
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- 2026-07-11T19:23:29Z
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- Yes
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