Before we launch into this, I want to caution everyone not to fall into the conspiracy rabbit hole. This is potentially part of a larger story surrounding the larger Trump-Russia saga, and therefore compels coverage, but it is not evidence of any wrongdoing, but the story touches on Donald Trump’s White House and Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Trump’s potential ties to Russia continue to surface in troubling ways, including a recent revelation that got lost in the post midterm blow out shock.
Devices operating on the White House's internet network have reportedly been acting as exit nodes for residential proxy services, including software tied to a Russian entrepreneur who owned King Servers, the company tied to the 2016 cyberattacks on elections in Arizona and Illinois.
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Researchers noticed this traffic between October 5 and November 3, 2026. Yes, the U.S. midterms.
“Security researchers at Layer3 Intel published a new report, saying they saw 236 instances of residential proxy traffic originating from AS2650. That is the name of an autonomous system registered to the Executive Office of the President, the federal agency that hosts the White House network,” Tech Radar reported.
“The researchers observed the traffic between October 5 and November 3 2026, and said that in 26 of the 30 days of observation, six IP addresses kept appearing.”
An anonymous commenter explained this as “Someone in the White House ‘probably installed a sketchy free app on their phone’.”
The Trump White House, which the mainstream media sometimes hails as the most transparent and available because they confuse Trump being willing to take their questions (i.e., lie to them on camera) and direct media engagement as being transparent, has refused to comment on the unsafe proxy found by researchers.
Elon Musk’s Starlink
Researchers also noticed odd activity from Elon Musk’s Starlink, seeing residential proxy activity in “some of the most remote players on the planet: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote South Atlantic territory.”
“The researchers saw 413 IP addresses and more than 32,000 observations on these locations, involving Elon Musk’s Starlink internet, as well as local internet service provider Sure Saint Helena,” Tech Radar reported.
Speaking of Elon Musk’s Starlink, according to recent reporting from The Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin is in competition with Elon Musk’s Space X) and a report by the Democracy Defenders Fund, federal contracting records show the Trump administration has agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million to SpaceX for Starlink services at the White House.
These payments were issued despite earlier statements from White House officials characterizing the internet service as a donation. The corruption and graft is endless.
Russian Connections
“Russian-linked proxy software found on White House network,” Techlicious reported, noting that one of the services involved is tied to the Russian businessman who used to own the hosting company that provided internet addresses used in the 2016 election hacks.