Category Archives: residential proxies

Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

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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. Continue reading Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet→

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

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911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at 911 and its connections to shady pay-per-install affiliate programs that secretly bundled 911’s proxy software with other titles, including “free” utilities and pirated software. Continue reading 911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach→

Online Privacy and Security: The Benefits of Using Residential Proxies

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In today’s increasingly digitized world, most of us take our online presence for granted. We happily surf the web, safe and secure in the knowledge that our data is equally safe as well and we are not being flagged or observed by anyone. We are also su… Continue reading Online Privacy and Security: The Benefits of Using Residential Proxies→

The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

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Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling “bulletproof residential VPN” service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad. Continue reading The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks→