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NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet
Google, the FBI, and multiple partners said they significantly degraded the NetNut residential proxy network as part of an ongoing disruption effort. Researchers report NetNut had at least 2 million devices enrolled, mainly small TV-streaming hardware, and that threat actors used NetNut exit nodes in numerous threat clusters, including for masking malicious traffic and password spray attacks.
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