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  1. It always amuses me to see #residential #proxy providers with service in certain regions. As an Internet infrastructure researcher, you folks have a hard time convincing me that you actually managed to leverage #IPv4 addresses linked to hosts residing in #NorthKorea.

    #residentialproxy

  2. Hmm, have to check my devices for weird traffic signals.

    Got myself #crowdsec'd on my own webserver, because some device sent a request to that server, with a user-agent, that was immediately blocked:

    87.133.254.228 - - [05/Feb/2026:15:31:17 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8065 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0"

    #ResidentialProxy

  3. Residential proxies are a curse. Criminals use them as botnet for DDOS attacks. AI companies pay them to scrape the web for training data in a way that's nigh impossible to block or throttle.

    Ipidea operated one of the largest residential proxy networks. Researchers found that Ipidea sold VPN services with "no clear disclosure about turning users' PCs into proxy nodes".

    cloud.google.com/blog/topics/t

    via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipidea

    Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/js7tql/google_disr

  4. Residential proxies are a curse. Criminals use them as botnet for DDOS attacks. AI companies pay them to scrape the web for training data in a way that's nigh impossible to block or throttle.

    Ipidea operated one of the largest residential proxy networks. Researchers found that Ipidea sold VPN services with "no clear disclosure about turning users' PCs into proxy nodes".

    cloud.google.com/blog/topics/t

    via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipidea

    Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/js7tql/google_disr

    #residentialproxy #netsec #IPIDEA

  5. Residential proxies are a curse. Criminals use them as botnet for DDOS attacks. AI companies pay them to scrape the web for training data in a way that's nigh impossible to block or throttle.

    Ipidea operated one of the largest residential proxy networks. Researchers found that Ipidea sold VPN services with "no clear disclosure about turning users' PCs into proxy nodes".

    cloud.google.com/blog/topics/t

    via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipidea

    Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/js7tql/google_disr

    #residentialproxy #netsec #IPIDEA

  6. Residential proxies are a curse. Criminals use them as botnet for DDOS attacks. AI companies pay them to scrape the web for training data in a way that's nigh impossible to block or throttle.

    Ipidea operated one of the largest residential proxy networks. Researchers found that Ipidea sold VPN services with "no clear disclosure about turning users' PCs into proxy nodes".

    cloud.google.com/blog/topics/t

    via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipidea

    Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/js7tql/google_disr

    #residentialproxy #netsec #IPIDEA

  7. Residential proxies are a curse. Criminals use them as botnet for DDOS attacks. AI companies pay them to scrape the web for training data in a way that's nigh impossible to block or throttle.

    Ipidea operated one of the largest residential proxy networks. Researchers found that Ipidea sold VPN services with "no clear disclosure about turning users' PCs into proxy nodes".

    cloud.google.com/blog/topics/t

    via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipidea

    Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/js7tql/google_disr

    #residentialproxy #netsec #IPIDEA

  8. @dgouttegattat - I believe you found evidence of a #GenerativeAI #crawler leveraging #residentialproxy infrastructure, like the one offered through #brightdata or competitors.

    It even advertises itself for #AI crawling use cases: brightdata.com/

  9. @dgouttegattat - I believe you found evidence of a #GenerativeAI #crawler leveraging #residentialproxy infrastructure, like the one offered through #brightdata or competitors.

    It even advertises itself for #AI crawling use cases: brightdata.com/

  10. @dgouttegattat - I believe you found evidence of a #GenerativeAI #crawler leveraging #residentialproxy infrastructure, like the one offered through #brightdata or competitors.

    It even advertises itself for #AI crawling use cases: brightdata.com/

  11. @dgouttegattat - I believe you found evidence of a #GenerativeAI #crawler leveraging #residentialproxy infrastructure, like the one offered through #brightdata or competitors.

    It even advertises itself for #AI crawling use cases: brightdata.com/

  12. @dgouttegattat - I believe you found evidence of a #GenerativeAI #crawler leveraging #residentialproxy infrastructure, like the one offered through #brightdata or competitors.

    It even advertises itself for #AI crawling use cases: brightdata.com/

  13. ⚠️ Do you download or use free apps?

    Chances are you do! But did you know that some free apps install proxies on devices so cybercriminals can use them as part of a "residential proxy network" to spread spam and malicious email? 😱

    For unsuspecting victims this can create a nightmare, as one man experienced when his doorbell got him listed on a Spamhaus blocklist!

    Read this true story here 👇
    spamhaus.org/resource-hub/comp

    #ResidentialProxy #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth