Researchers at HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence have discovered a disturbing number of VPN apps that turn users’ devices into proxies for cybercriminals without their knowledge, as part of a camapign called PROXYLIB.
Cybercriminals and state actors like to send their traffic through other people’s devices, known as proxies. This allows them to use somebody else’s resources to get their work done, it masks the origin of their attacks so they are less likely to get blocked, and it makes it easy for them to keep operating if one of their proxies is blocked.
21 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 2 Apr
Free VPNs are not always a good idea. They do not offer the same level of privacy and security as other methods.
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Fact, when something is free, usually you're the product
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @007 2 Apr
Someone is paying attention!
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🧐
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