Scroll down to "anonymization": https://ipinfo.io/what-is-my-ip

If there's anything there, monitor your network to figure out exactly what

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     <span class="text-sm">Residential Proxy</span>
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Fantastic question. There is so much IOT garbage out there that someone might slip into my network, what can I do to easily detect it?

I was aghast when my partner connected a pet watering bowl to the WiFi.

This one actually works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713037

Watch egress at the router for anything unaccounted for, tbh.

"Legal". The law is truly an ass.

Thankfully security researchers exist to fill the gaps that lawmakers haven't gotten to / won't get to: https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-you...

These are the specific URLs mentioned:

  proxyjs.brdtnet.com
  proxyjs.luminatinet.com
  proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
  clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
  clientsdk.brdtnet.com

I use these regular expressions to block any connections to the domains or subdomains:

  /(\.|^)brdtnet\.com$/
  /(\.|^)luminatinet\.com$/
  /(\.|^)bright-sdk\.com$/
  /(\.|^)luminati\.io$/

No idea if this actually prevents proxy functionality altogether, but prevents some phoning home if you're infected.

See below for his this "consent" actually works. (The screenshot of the game.)

https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

Brightdata still sucks at disclosing to users that they're opted in to this and that their connection is being used for this. It's "on by default", not opt-in and often buried in an unskippable "Accept the terms" or dig-to-opt-out prompt.

It's described at a high level in media often. Here's more detail though:

Person buys a product, or downloads some software - that unknowing to them, was reaching out to a central server elsewhere to establish a network tunnel. And over that tunnel, the other server routes traffic onto that person's home network. Which can then of course go onto the internet, and it appears like the traffic originated from their home internet connection.

Other people rent access to this network. The goal being, you have surreptitious access to appear as any one of tens of thousands of home network IP addresses on the public internet. Bad guys can use this to rotate through many different IP addresses when their access gets blocked because of malicious (or benign but unwanted) behavior on the internet. Residential IP addresses are more 'valuable' because they don't have the negative connotation that datacentre and commercial IPs can have, and they can be spread geographically or across many ISPs.

A very common way for people being a part of these residential proxy networks is by buying dodgy streaming boxes, and also installing shady apps on TV app marketplaces.

It means some networked devices in there are being remotely piloted to tunnel network traffic to somewhere else. This scenario usually happens with more "unprofessional" ISPs, which sell bandwidth from their networked clients for people in need of such services.

Such as ignoring web scraping countermeasures, and DDoS.

Some good answers in this thread. I had the same question but I'm still a tad confused:

* I initially thought this meant someone in the WH network was using commercial proxies to appear as if they were exiting from a different network (which would align with "some user is firing up a proxy on their phone to exit in a different location")

* But then the description of residential proxies seemed to align more with traffic hitting an endpoint in the White House, and _exiting_ from the network there. But this didn't explain the timing (why isn't it 24/7).

* Finally it sounds like some person, legitimately on the WH network, has a device (cell phone, TV, whatever) that, when activated, is proxying outside traffic into the WH network.

There are companies that provide proxy services for scraping services, and residential proxies route through consumer networks (like Comcast) which is flagged less than a datacenter IP.

Many questionable TV streaming boxes pretend to deliver you video, but in reality they are also piggy backing on your personal ISP to power those companies.

The 4th sentence in the article has a link to What is a Residential Proxy?[0]

[0]: https://layer3intel.com/what-is-a-residential-proxy

From the article:

> Residential proxy services sell access to everyday devices, letting customers send traffic through them so it appears to come from that device's network.

They really should have said "botnet malware detected", it turns the White House into an exit IP for someone's else's botnet.

Brightdata offers it as a paid service https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies

Essentially lets bad actors use your home network.

There are services you can pay for such that you can route internet traffic thru a specific IP in a specific part of the world. People (usually unwillingly and unknowingly) run software that effectively makes them part of a giant botnet. A computer running in Romania might have some kind of weather application or gambling/casino app that I could use to make an HTTP request as if I were on their network. So if you need access to 1,000 or 10,000 IP's to circumvent rate limits or perform crawling tasks, this is how you could do it.

Second paragraph

Any router capable of being flashed with OpenWRT or their own router is a good start.

vibe coded "black box" ie: probably shit.

Answer my own question - It was actually an outside entity that detected the problem. However , it gives the network admins a way to determine if this activity is happening on networks they are responsible for .....

Good luck turning this presidents kit off