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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

July 29, 2022 admin 9/11, A Little Sunshine, data breaches, luxsocks, residential proxies, riley kilmer, spur.us, vip72, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:34:45 +0000

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.

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

August 19, 2019 admin 202-643-8533, 868-360-9983, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Breadcrumbs, Hackforums, Hexproxy, Hyas, IAPS Security Services, Joshua Powder, joshua.powder@gmail.com, Laskh Cybersecurity and Defense LLC, Men Danil Valentinovich, Profitvolt, Residential Networking Solutions LLC, residential proxies, Resnet, resnetworking, Serversget, shoe bots, sneaker bots, The Coming Storm, Wireless Data Service Provider Corporation

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:03:32 +0000

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.