FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and law-enforcement actions were reported: the FBI and industry partners seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut, a residential-proxy platform allegedly operated by NASDAQ-listed Alarum Technologies, after multiple firms linked NetNut to the Popa Android/IoT botnet that has enslaved millions of consumer TV boxes for proxying, ad fraud, account takeovers and large-scale data scraping. Separately, authorities arrested/charged alleged botnet operators (Kimwolf) and Dutch police seized servers and arrested operators of hosting used for Russian cyber activity;