Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses

November 6, 2026 Emma Roth

Digital photo illustration of a laptop displaying a black and green image of the Capitol building, with ones and zeroes falling in the background.

Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just "a few dollars," as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which discovered residential proxy activity on the White House network.

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 …

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