Residential proxies detected on White House network
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November 04, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (19 comments)
bronco21016
Gotta have your SuperBox set up to watch 24 hr cable news working late into the night.
sfmike
Vibe coders really having fun on their side quests these days
spiderfarmer
That is not an environment for serious people anymore so that's expected.
Bassiestroep
I mean supply chain-attacks are everywhere. Smart-TV's with certain marketplace apps, IoT devices. Also, I'm surprised the white house's network is not monitored more.
mongrelion
What is a residential proxy?
vanyle
Residential proxies are a very important part of the internet, they allow scraping for archiving, automation and can be used for extra anonymity. While they have grown a bit too much, they are a natural response to the absurd amount of effort every website is pouring into anti-scraping tech.
09712306130
Seems like the president found a business opportunity and gave internal orders to rent out the network infrastructure to 'ethically sourced' providers :^) Jokes aside, might be some infected IoT crap. I buy and use residential proxies, though.
btown
The danger here, of course, is that while these compromised devices are currently being monetized in a relatively benign way (other than bandwidth costs to the user, which to be sure can be nontrivial)… it would be naive to assume that there isn't a Command and Control capability that can assign less benign tasking - or can be compromised to do so. This also puts some of the troubling reports that politicians were bringing phones into SCIFs into context…
JudahNyquist
probably something IOT with a vulnerability, happens all the time.
anpat
How would one detect this on their home network and protect themselves from?
j2kun
Out of curiosity, how would I check my own device for a residential proxy?
opengrass
NSA honeypots
lakeviewterrace
So they don't actually know what this network is, just who owns the IP space... time for a blog post to advertise our week-old service! There is no evidence that physically ties this to the WH. It could be in a security lab for all they know. Or a guest network for the news media.
jefurii
But her e-mail server!
charcircuit
>that poorly secured proxy SDKs can allow internal network access and lateral movement. Let me guess. The SDK being used does properly handle this and this whole article is anti residential proxy FUD.
hackernud3s
Those are better than residential proxies. Those are White House proxies. I would pay $10/GB for those babies.
threecheese
"Infected with a proxy SDK" wouldn't be my first guess. Am I jaded? A realist?
gdevenyi
It would be really great to have some info about how to detect such things locally.
seethishat
I have T-mobile 5g. My IP shows up as a residential proxy. I can't control the T-Mobile 5g device. It's a black-box. And, I only have one Linux desktop on the home network (so no Windows/Mac malware). Not sure why my IP is listed as a residential proxy.