June 21, 2026
- Krebs linked the Popa botnet — millions of compromised Android TV boxes relaying traffic for ad fraud, account takeovers, and scraping — to NetNut, a residential-proxy provider run by NASDAQ-listed Israeli firm Alarum Technologies (Krebs on Security). A new Rust-based MaaS, Vektor, is being advertised with a subscriber panel, crypto-drainer, clipper, and CIS-exclusion for ~$120–$450/month (Dark Web Informer). · Threat Intelligence