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I’m surprised that there aren’t projects that aggregate a bunch of these known exploits together with these security search engines to find vulnerable devices a
by eigenvalue 3y ago
I’m surprised that there aren’t projects that aggregate a bunch of these known exploits together with these security search engines to find vulnerable devices and use them to create a TOR-like network of proxy server nodes. Presumably most of these vulnerable devices are running in homes of consumers with residential internet, making the traffic hard to identify as being from a VPN service. Not that I’m suggesting anyone actually do this since it would be highly illegal…
- tadfisher 3y agoWhy do that for free? Folks are perfectly happy to pay to be part of NordVPN's proxy network.
- smashed 3y agoI've seen compromised iot devices used to run proxy servers. They are mostly resold on black market as residential IPs for web scrapping and such. Since there is a black market for it they mostly get resold, instead of put to use on the free TOR network I guess. Residential ISPs usually monitor the blacklisting of their IP addresses and will contact/suspend the customer once the IPs get listed on public black lists.
- galangalalgol 3y agoHow unlikely is it that some major iot device manufacturers outsource the firmware to someone who puts botnets in to start with? Who writes fridge firmware? Does ge or Samsung do that in house? Ovens? Definitely some liability there, but I'm not sure which way that drives it, out or in.