Residential proxy traffic exited through the White House network 236 times over a 30-day period, according to Layer3 Intel, a New York-based residential proxy detection firm. The firm published its findings on November 4.
Residential proxy services sell access to everyday devices, letting customers route traffic through them so it appears to come from each device's network. Layer3 said 28 separate residential proxy services were able to route traffic through six White House addresses.
The addresses sit in AS2650, the block of internet addresses registered to the Executive Office of the President. Layer3 recorded the exits on 26 of the 30 days between October 5 and November 3. It found the activity in its newly launched Residential Proxy Observatory.
Layer3 cross-checked the addresses against public lookup pages from proxy detection services Spur and Synthient. Both independently identified the addresses as residential proxy exits.
Layer3 said anyone could route traffic through the same addresses by signing up to a public residential proxy service and paying a few dollars. The firm found the activity by chance while requesting ordinary global rotating access through these services.
About half of the activity occurred between 5pm and midnight Eastern Time, with almost none in the early morning. Layer3 said this pattern su