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Google Disrupts Massive NetNut Botnet NetworkDisabling command accounts cut access to 2 million devices, reducing NetNut’s proxy pool and impacting cybercrime operations.
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- Google disrupted NetNut by disabling accounts used for the botnet’s command-and-control functions, significantly hindering its activity.
- The network operated through at least 2 million residential devices worldwide, routing internet traffic via consumer IPs.
- Within one week, 316 distinct threat clusters, including cybercriminal and espionage groups, were identified using NetNut exit nodes.
- Google cautions that the expanding residential proxy market may complicate future efforts to dismantle similar botnets.
We believe our coordinated actions have caused significant degradation to NetNut’s proxy network and its business operations, reducing the available pool of devices for the proxy operator by millions,— Google said.
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