White House Staffers' Devices Are Quietly Renting Out the President's Internet Address
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Security firm Layer3 Intel found residential proxy nodes beaconing from the network reserved for the Executive Office of the President, with traffic exiting 236 times between October 5 and November 3, mostly in the evening. One service involved, Infatica, was founded by Vladimir Fomenko, whose hosting firm King Servers housed six of the eight IPs used by Russian state hackers against Arizona and Illinois election systems in 2016. Layer3 says 28 proxy services could exit through the White House network, and anyone can rent that access for a few dollars.
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