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The FBI just shut down a 2-million-device botnet. The Australian angle is worse than the headline.

July 5, 2026 · 12 min read

The FBI just shut down a 2-million-device botnet. The Australian angle is worse than the headline.

The FBI seized NetNut and the Popa botnet on 02 July 2026. Smart TVs and streaming boxes were being used as proxy nodes. The scarier part: the same compromised home network your device sits on is now exposed to the rest of the internet.

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