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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

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based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. The domain Vip72[.]org “ Haxdoor ,” and “ Nuclear Grabber.”

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

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Privnote’s ease-of-use and popularity among cryptocurrency enthusiasts has made it a perennial target of phishers , who erect Privnote clones that function more or less as advertised but also quietly inject their own cryptocurrency payment addresses when a note is created that contains crypto wallets. com include privnode[.]com

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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‘Tis the Season for the Wayward Package Phish

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One of dozens of FedEx-themed phishing sites currently being advertised via SMS spam. com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. “It is a nearly perfect attack vector at this time of year,” Morton said. com — stopped resolving. com, g001bfedeex[.]com,

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

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BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. The service is currently advertising access to more than 150,000 devices globally. com has been advertised for nearly a decade on the forum Black Hat World by the user BHProxies. com on Mar.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

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With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

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guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz But Intel 471 finds that after his critical review of VIP Crypt, Kerens did not post publicly on Exploit again for another four years until October 2016, when they suddenly began advertising Cryptor[.]biz.

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