Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network
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Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on layer3intel.com.
Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 4, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 78 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #1 of 30, reached on Nov 5, 14:52 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 5, 16:22 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #1 | 2 | 78 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network | same link | |||
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
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 -…
They’re too polite to say it explicitly, but when they say: > Most of the activity happens in the evening, Eastern time: about half of it falls between 5 p.m. and midnight, and almost none happens in the early morning. That pattern suggests a person rather than a public guest Wi-Fi network: someone regularly on the…
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.
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 5, 16:22 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
#1 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 5, 14:52 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 4, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (78 checks) since.
1010 points and 312 comments; submitted by Rasbora on Nov 4, 2026.