Bitsight found Fuyao software on H96 Android TV boxes, letting operators fake ad clicks and route proxy traffic through their owners' home internet connections.

Google announced that it helped take down NetNut, a 2 million strong malicious residential proxy network. The incident highlights the growing risks posed by residential proxy networks that quietly conscript consumer devices into services used by cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike.

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FBI and Google disrupt NetNut after domains linked to its residential proxy network are seized, exposing abuse of 2 million TVs and streaming devices worldwide.

Google, the FBI and the IRS Criminal Investigation division disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network built on two million hijacked devices and used by 316 threat clusters in a single week.

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