Once again excellent article by about the '911' residential proxy service: krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep
It provides interesting insights regarding the techniques used to enrol new infected devices in their proxy pool. (1/3)
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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: datadome.co/bot-management (3/3)
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Hi, Both articles are very interesting. I am always surprised that we can find residential networks described as "Legal". Perhaps I'm a bit to naive 😉
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Yes, it's a shady area. Some actors are asking for user consent to get access to the their device through a SDK. There seem to be also an increasing number of bandwidth sharing apps: proxyway.com/research/proxy
In both cases I don't think non-tech users understand the consequences
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