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Category: Reddit

  • Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies

    Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic.…

  • DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

    DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’ The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s…