Popa Botnet Tied to Israeli Firm Alarum Technologies
🟠 High | Source: Krebs on Security A large Android botnet called Popa has been operating for four years, silently turning millions of consumer TV boxes into proxies used for ad fraud, account takeovers, and data scraping. Security researchers have now linked the botnet to NetNut, a residential proxy service run by Alarum Technologies, a publicly-traded Israeli company on NASDAQ. The findings raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the residential proxy industry and how such services may be built on compromised consumer devices. ...