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FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

30 points • by k1m • yesterday at 10:48 PM • 11 comments • view on HN

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WarOnPrivacy • today at 1:01 AM

    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 publicly-traded Israeli company 
    Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR].
rendaw • today at 5:58 AM

Are residential proxies illegal? Why is the FBI involved with civil actions?

meszmate • today at 6:19 AM

They seized netnut.com, but netnut.io is still online. Not sure how long that'll last though.

A_D_E_P_T • yesterday at 11:00 PM

> https://x.com/weezerOSINT/status/2072772333329416654

> They seized the wrong domain. Netnut is still up and running

> The domain FBI seized: https://netnut.com

> The real domain https://netnut.io

The backend infrastructure, for similar reasons, is probably still operational, even if it might have taken a hit.

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iJohnDoe • today at 4:54 AM

Disrupting a publicly-traded Israeli company? Heads will roll on Monday.

This will cause a disruption to all sorts of intelligence operations. The FBI didn’t get the memo apparently.

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charcircuit • today at 1:47 AM

Google is pulling up the ladder for other internet crawlers for search engines and AI. It also hurts privacy and anonymity taking away an option to hide your IP without being an obvious VPN exit point.

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