‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

The Popa Android-based botnet has spent four years utilizing millions of consumer TV boxes to facilitate mass data-scraping, account takeovers, and advertising fraud. Security researchers recently determined that this sprawling network is linked to NetNut, a residential proxy provider. NetNut is operated by Alarum Technologies Ltd, a publicly-traded Israeli firm listed on NASDAQ under the ticker ALAR. Separately, the company Einride has also transitioned to become a publicly traded entity according to recent reports.