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Antoine Vastel

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Once again excellent article by

@briankrebs

about the '911' residential proxy service: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/… It provides interesting insights regarding the techniques used to enrol new infected devices in their proxy pool. (1/3)

krebsonsecurity.com

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in...

12:21 PM · Jul 19, 2022·Twitter Web App

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Antoine Vastel

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Surprise (or not), once again, it involves free VPN apps and trojanized torrents linked to popular software, e.g. Photoshop. (2/3)

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If you're interested by residential proxies and the techniques used by residential proxy networks to obtain them, feel free to read this blog posts we published a few months ago: https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/how-proxy-providers-get-residential-proxies/… (3/3)

datadome.co

How proxy providers obtain residential proxies. | DataDome

As automated attackers (bots) increasingly use residential proxies, sophisticated behavioral detection will be more and more essential.

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