internet of things (iot) – PossibleThreat Articles

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

August 26, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aliaksandr holas, andrei holas, blackhatworld, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, domaintools.com, dslroot, globalsolutions, incorptoday, incorptoday@gmail.com, intel 471, internet of things (iot), Latest Warnings, lloyd davies, prepaidsolutions@yahoo.com, reddit, reveng.ai, ryzhik777@gmail.com, sacapoopie, usproxyking, webhostingtalk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:05:12 +0000

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

August 27, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, black lotus labs, bronze silhouette, christopher wray, cve-2024-39717, cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, federal bureau of investigation, insidious taurus, internet of things (iot), kv-botnet, Latest Warnings, lumen technologies, michael horka, National Security Agency, ryan english, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of justice, versa director 22.1.4, volt typhoon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:26:41 +0000

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

Independent Krebs Security

Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

July 25, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adrian crismaru, avrecon, black lotus labs, domaintools.com, intel471, internet of things (iot), lumen, riley kilmer, socksescort, spur.us, Web Fraud 2.0, wiremo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:20:55 +0000

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort, which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online.