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Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet

May 28, 2024 0 Comments 911 s5, 911s5, biz pattaya group company limited, dewvpn, jingping liu, lily suites company limited, maskvpn, other, paladinvpn, proxy, residential proxies, riley kilmer, spur.us, u.s. department of the treasury, yanni zheng, yunhe wang

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 20:38:32 +0000

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later.

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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

July 29, 2022 0 Comments 911, A Little Sunshine, Data Breaches, luxsocks, residential proxies, riley kilmer, spur.us, vip72, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:34:45 +0000

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at 911 and its connections to shady pay-per-install affiliate programs that secretly bundled 911’s proxy software with other titles, including “free” utilities and pirated software.

Independent Krebs

The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

August 27, 2019 0 Comments 202-643-8533, 868-360-9983, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Breadcrumbs, Hackforums, Hexproxy, Hyas, IAPS Security Services, Joshua Powder, joshua.powder@gmail.com, Laskh Cybersecurity and Defense LLC, Men Danil Valentinovich, Profitvolt, Residential Networking Solutions LLC, residential proxies, Resnet, resnetworking, Serversget, shoe bots, sneaker bots, The Coming Storm, Wireless Data Service Provider Corporation

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:03:32 +0000

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling “bulletproof residential VPN” service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad.