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‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm
A years-long Android botnet called Popa has hijacked millions of consumer TV boxes to relay traffic tied to ad fraud, account takeovers, and data scraping. Security researchers have linked the operation to NetNut, a residential proxy service run by Alarum Technologies, a publicly traded Israeli company listed on NASDAQ.