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Independent Krebs

Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

May 28, 2024 admin 911 s5, 911s5, biz pattaya group company limited, dewvpn, jingping liu, lily suites company limited, maskvpn, Other, paladinvpn, proxy, residential proxies, riley kilmer, spur.us, u.s. department of the treasury, yanni zheng, yunhe wang

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 20:38:32 +0000

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later.

Security Sophos

Smoke and (screen) mirrors: A strange signed backdoor

April 15, 2024 admin backdoor, certificate, Featured, proxy, sophos x-ops, threat research

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:08:05 +0000

Sophos X-Ops discovers a curious backdoored (and signed) executable, masquerading as something else entirely

Kaspersky Security

Mitigating the risks of residential proxies | Kaspersky official blog

April 15, 2024 admin Business, enterprise, fraud, proxies, proxy, proxyware, routers, SMB, Technology, Threats, Tips

Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:12:13 +0000

What are residential proxies, and how can attacks routed through them be tracked?

MalwareBytes Security

Bring your own privacy: VPNs for consumers and orgs

March 17, 2020 admin anonymity, Anonymous, desktop, ip address, Mobile, privacy, Private Browsing, proxy, remote work, remote workers, secure, virtual private networks, VPN, VPNs

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:24:33 +0000

VPNs are all the rage, but they’re not without their problems. Where do you stand on the great “Should we deploy a VPN” debate?

Categories:

Privacy

Tags: anonymity anonymous desktop IP address Mobile privacy private browsing proxy remote work remote workers secure virtual private networks vpn VPNs

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Kaspersky Security

A gatekeeper for your network

August 21, 2018 admin Business, gateway, Network, proxy, Server, Web traffic

Credit to Author: Oleg Gorobets| Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:34:12 +0000

Start protecting your network by stopping potential threats way before they can get too close — on the Internet gateway level.

MalwareBytes Security

Adware the series, part 2

May 3, 2017 admin Adware, DNS, dns hijacker, LSP hijacker, proxy, proxy hijacker, PUP, pups, rootkit, Trojan

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 15:00:12 +0000

In part 2 of our adware series, we focus on a few methods to reroute, intercept, and change your internet traffic.

Categories:

PUP

Tags: adware dns dns hijacker LSP hijacker proxy proxy hijacker PUP PUPs rootkit trojan

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