Google’s Continued Disruption of Malicious Residential Proxy Networks

Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa. This action builds on our disruption of the IPIDEA proxy network that took place in January 2026, and is a continuation of Google’s objective to dismantle malicious residential proxy networks. Actions Taken As a part of this disruption we took the following actions: Disabled Google accounts and associated Google services used by NetNut for malware command and control (C2), which directly violates Google’s Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Pol