FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
2026-07-08T01:23:28Z•82b8010b9c7505e363348f5e9126ac829390928b6d48efd39fc116a74709599d
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cybersecurity incidents were reported: the FBI seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut, a residential-proxy service operated by Alarum Technologies, after research linked NetNut to the Popa botnet — an Android-based network of ~2 million compromised consumer TV boxes used to proxy traffic for ad fraud, scraping and account takeovers. Separately, a CISA contractor exposed AWS GovCloud keys and extensive internal secrets on a public GitHub repository, prompting Congressional inquiries and large-scale remediation. Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed nearly 200 flaws (
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- 2026-07-08T01:23:28Z
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