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Unless you're running a very popular service, unlikely that a random residential IP would be both compromised by a malicious VPN and also trying to access your
by SoftTalker 1y ago
Unless you're running a very popular service, unlikely that a random residential IP would be both compromised by a malicious VPN and also trying to access your site legitimately.
- arbol 1y agoLots of people have chrome extensions installed that use their connection like proxy so this is more common than you think
- SoftTalker 1y agoCan you provide any examples of these extensions? I'm not doubting you, just curious.
- arbol 1y agoThere's one mentioned here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-stealing-chrome-extensions-impersonate-fortinet-youtube-vpns/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-stealing... Anyone who owns a chrome extension with 50k+ installs is regularly asked to sell it to people (myself included). The people who buy the extensions try to monetize them any way they can, like proxying traffic for malicious scrapers / attacks.
- snthd 1y agoBright VPN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data
- esseph 1y agoBotnets are massive these days. Also a lot of big companies are paying for residential "proxies" to scrape traffic from for AI.