| ▲ | FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet(krebsonsecurity.com) |
| 31 points by k1m 11 hours ago | 11 comments |
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| ▲ | WarOnPrivacy 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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].
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| ▲ | rendaw 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Are residential proxies illegal? Why is the FBI involved with civil actions? |
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| ▲ | A_D_E_P_T 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > 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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| ▲ | k1m 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Google shows netnut.com[1] being the same thing, so not sure it's the wrong domain. Maybe not the main one. Brian Krebs' comment on this[2]: > Pretty sure they're working on getting that domain too, but it's taking longer for some reason. Either way, they have dismantled the botnet's back end infrastructure, so for now it's not doing much. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anetnut.com [2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bkrebs_new-breaking-fbi-seize... | | |
| ▲ | A_D_E_P_T 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | WRT [1], you get a lot more results with https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anetnut.io And if they didn't even grab the main domain that the service used, why so confident that they've totally dismantled the back end infrastructure? | | |
| ▲ | k1m 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | I personally have no insight into what they have or haven't dismantled. Just found the article interesting (had never heard of the company). Was responding to the "They seized the wrong domain" claim in the tweet you quoted. I read that and thought they disabled an unrelated domain, which doesn't appear to be the case. As for the main domain, no idea about that. Someone brought that up to the author of the piece, and the bit I quoted was his response. I have no more info beyond that. |
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| ▲ | meszmate 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They seized netnut.com, but netnut.io is still online. Not sure how long that'll last though. |
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| ▲ | iJohnDoe 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | chews an hour ago | parent [-] | | Just annoyed that tencent and others are using alternate channels. |
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