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Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies
Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S. Justice Department also indicted three Russian nationals (Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin) and a Kazakhstani (Dmitriy Rubtsov) for their involvement in operating, maintaining, and…
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ISP Proxies vs. Residential Proxies
Proxies act as intermediaries between your device and the internet. It does this by directing web traffic through alternative IP addresses, thereby hiding your real IP address from the websites you visit and making it more difficult for those websites to track your online activities Their applications range from boosting online anonymity and bypassing geographic restrictions to enhancing business operations…
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