Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices

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Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices
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Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the network's pool of usable devices by millions. Google identifies NetNut, also tracked as Popa, as a network spread across home

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