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Google’s Continued Disruption of Malicious Residential Proxy Networks

July 2, 2026 · Google Cloud Security · Severity: HIGH

Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa.

Key Takeaways

  • Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential.
  • We believe our coordinated actions have caused significant degradation to NetNut’s proxy network and its business.
  • We ensured Google Play Protect, Android’s built-in security protection, automatically warned users and disabled.
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