{"id":10125,"date":"2026-11-06T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10125"},"modified":"2026-11-06T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:44:28","slug":"white-house-residential-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10125","title":{"rendered":"Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">A residential proxy opens up a way for people to rent access to a home IP address and route their internet traffic through it, allowing them to conceal where their activity is actually coming from. Some apps and browser extensions include third-party software development kits (SDKs) that put proxy nodes on a user\u2019s device \u2014 whether users know it or not. Third-party services can then sell access to the residential proxies on users\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">At the White House, Layer3 Intel found that 28 residential proxy services routed traffic out of the network from October 5th to November 3rd. It notes that this activity typically happens between 5PM ET and midnight. \u201cThat pattern suggests a person rather than a public guest Wi-Fi network: someone regularly on the White House network late into the evening, whose device is infected with a proxy SDK,\u201d Layer3 says. The SDK in question might be linked to the watch party app Rave, according to Synthient, which says the app \u201cbundles 12 proxy SDKs into the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Synthient found \u201ca number of Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices on the White House\u2019s network beaconing to known proxy providers like Geonode, Infatica and Mellowtel.\u201d As noted by <em>Krebs on Security<\/em>, Infatica is a proxy service founded by Vladimir Fomenko, the owner of King Servers, which was linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/fbi-is-investigating-foreign-hacks-of-state-election-systems\/2016\/08\/29\/6e758ff4-6e00-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html\">2016 cyberattacks<\/a> on election systems in Illinois and Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Layer3 warns that the residential proxy is \u201cpublic access,\u201d adding that \u201canybody can obtain it by signing up to a public residential proxy service, paying a few dollars and sending requests through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1028835\/white-house-residential-proxy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A residential proxy opens up a way for people to rent access to a home IP address and route their internet traffic through it, allowing them to conceal where their activity is actually coming from. 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