NetNut botnet takes a hit. Don’t be part of the next one.

In a joint operation, Google , the FBI, and other partners have dealt a significant blow to the residential proxy ecosystem by disrupting the NetNut (also tracked as Popa) botnet. NetNut is a malicious service built on millions of hijacked consumer devices. NetNut marketed itself as a high-quality residential proxy provider, selling access to “real” home IP addresses for web data collection and other benign-sounding use cases.