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Title: Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/013721...

Cybercriminals have been increasingly turning to "residential proxy" services
over the past two to three years to disguise malicious web traffic as
everyday online activity, according to research presented at the Sleuthcon
cybercrime conference. The shift represents a response to law enforcement's
growing success in targeting traditional "bulletproof" hosting services,
which previously allowed criminals to maintain anonymous web infrastructure.
Residential proxies route traffic through decentralized networks running on
consumer devices like old Android phones and low-end laptops, providing real
IP addresses assigned to homes and offices. This approach makes malicious
activity extremely difficult to detect because it appears to originate from
trusted consumer locations rather than suspicious server farms. The
technology creates particular challenges when attackers appear to come from
the same residential IP ranges as employees of target organizations.

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