The smart TV or streaming box sitting in your living room may have spent the past several years quietly renting your home internet connection to hackers, password-spraying crews, and government ...

A joint operation involving Google has disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network that gave access to millions of compromised Android devices, including smart TVs and streaming boxes. Also known as ...

Tech companies working with US law enforcement "significantly degraded" the NetNut residential proxy network as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt the tools cybercriminals use to conceal their ...

Google, the FBI and the IRS Criminal Investigation division have taken down one of the internet’s largest residential proxy botnets. The network was built on more than two million hijacked smart TVs, ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) just took serious action against hundreds of domains associated with a residential proxy service called NetNut, which is operated by Israeli company Alarum ...

Google says it disrupted the NetNut botnet by disabling accounts used for malware command-and-control operations. The company estimates the network relied on roughly 2 million internet-connected ...

Google says it worked with the FBI and Lumen Technologies to disrupt a botnet, an army of infected computers, spanning Android-based TV boxes sold to consumers. It linked the botnet to the Israeli ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the ...

A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online ...

More than 4,300 home routers worldwide have been quietly converted into a distributed reconnaissance network by a newly documented malware family called AryStinger — not the familiar kind of botnet ...

Canada's spy service got a judge's permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets. The Federal Court released a ...