What we know so far: A coordinated effort by US law enforcement and private-sector researchers has disrupted a major residential proxy network that turned everyday consumer devices into tools for ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

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 ...

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.

Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than other app stores due to the smaller ecosystem and fewer reviewers. Spur analyzed ...

Smart TV botnet NetNut secretly rented millions of home IPs to criminals. The FBI and Google shut it down - here's how to ...

The NetNut proxy network and the ‘Popa’ botnet are known to have infected devices with variants of Mirai DDoS botnets ...

Google says it observed cybercriminal and espionage groups using NetNut's residential proxies, which can route traffic ...