Researchers Find Residential Proxies on White House Network
Security researchers have discovered multiple computers on the White House network that are used as residential proxy exit nodes.
According to Layer3 Intel, six IP addresses on AS2650, the network reserved for the Executive Office of the President, were used by 28 residential proxy services between October 5 and November 3.
“Our residential proxy enumeration pipeline exited through the White House network 236 separate times,” Layer3 Intel says.
These exits, the security firm says, can be used by anyone signing up to a public residential proxy service to send requests through them.
Most of the observed activity happens in the evening, between 5 p.m. and midnight, Eastern Time, and almost none in the early morning.
“That pattern suggests a person rather than a public guest Wi-Fi network: someone regularly on the White House network late into the evening, whose device is infected with a proxy SDK,” Layer3 Intel notes.
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