public-research

Public Research Open source research and talks on threat intelligence, fingerprinting, and fraud detection. Talks 10/25/2024 - Anti-Fraud W3 Community Group - An Emprical Analysis of Residential Proxies 03/27/2025 - Anti-Fraud W3 Community Group - Mitigating Fingerprint Impersonation 10/23/2025...

Home-Network-Vulnerability-Assessment

Home-Network-Vulnerability-Assessment Security audit and vulnerability analysis CVE-2014-3566 and CVE-2010-2333 on the local network infrastructure and residential router. Security Audit and Vulnerability Analysis on Residential Router Project Description This project documents a perimeter securi...

badbox-h713-projector

Wielo / Atongmu Malware Projector: BadBox Analysis and Cleanup AT-M269 / H713 Sep 26, 2026 · @R A cheap Android projector Wielo / Atongmu AT-M269, Allwinner H713 ships with a system-level dropper that turns it into a residential proxy node. This doc shows how to get in without opening the case,...

Exploit for Server-Side Request Forgery in Plex Media_Server

plex2shell-check Read-only compromise check for Plex2Shell...

Low-Cost Android Phones Ship With Preinstalled Malware That Turns Them Into Residential Proxies

Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies. The activity, which targets Android devices built on MediaTek platforms across several...

Malicious code in hyatt-residential-roster (npm)

Package is malware. Collects and exfiltrates sensitive data to an external server. Suspicious install scripts execute the same script multiple times. The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- Credit: OpenSSF source...

Free streaming boxes may be routing criminal traffic through your home

“Free” movies and TV could cost you your privacy, bandwidth, and control of your home network. We've warned about illegal streaming and modded Amazon Fire TV Sticks in the past. Now, researchers have found that certain SuperBox devices and apps could quietly enroll a household connection into a...

H96 Android TV Boxes Used for Ad Fraud and Residential Proxies

Bitsight found Fuyao software on H96 Android TV boxes, letting operators fake ad clicks and route proxy traffic through their owners' home internet connections...

Residential Gateway Login Panel - Detect

Residential Gateway login panel was detected. !/usr/bin/env python3 -- coding: utf-8 -- """Residential Gateway login panel was detected.""" from kittysploit import from lib.protocols.http.httpclient import Httpclient class ModuleScanner, Httpclient: info = 'name': 'Residential Gateway Login Panel...

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available...

Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More

A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code pulled dirt from a dependency. Identit...

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...

FBI Seizes NetNut Domains as Google Disrupts 2M Device Proxy Network

FBI and Google disrupt NetNut after domains linked to its residential proxy network are seized, exposing abuse of 2 million TVs and streaming devices worldwide...

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

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 TechnologiesNASDAQ: ALAR. The action comes roughly two weeks after...

Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices

Google has significantly degraded NetNut , one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat Intelligence Group GTIG said this week it had reduced the network's pool of usable devices by...

Hackers steal passport and driver’s license data of 3 million Texans

You can change a password and cancel a card. But replacing a passport or driver's license number every time someone leaves yours unsecured in a vendor database isn't so easy. More than three million Texans are facing that problem after a data breach involving a vendor used by the Texas Parks and...

‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botn...

Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations...

Free Apps Are Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI...