The White House network has been working as an exit point for residential proxy services, a setup that may open a path into one of the most closely guarded networks in the world, Layer3 Intel found. In a blog post, the threat intelligence firm reported that its proxy enumeration pipeline exited through AS2650, the network registered to the Executive Office of the President, 236 times between October 5 and November 3. The exits came from … More →
Residential proxy traffic caught leaving the White House network
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