Google and the FBI Target Massive Botnet That Quietly Used Home Devices to Mask Cybercrime
The FBI, in partnership with Google and other tech companies, struck a massive blow against NetNut, a public-facing residential network proxy service that secretly hosted a botnet controlling approximately 2 million Android TVs and similar smart home devices. The network was being used for password-spraying, credential attacks and other malicious activity.
Residential proxy botnets make malicious traffic appear like normal internet use, allowing everyday devices to be secretly hijacked by cybercriminals to conduct illegal activities using your home internet. Infected home devices were often preloaded with malicious software used by the botnet, which made traditional home security practices less effective at detecting and stopping the problem.
According to an FBI statement emailed to CNET, on July 2, the federal agency carried out "a court-authorized seizure of multiple domains as part of a coordinated law enforcement action with the Department of Justice and IRS Criminal Investigation targeting infrastructure associated with the...
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