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Cheap TV streaming sticks are secretly clicking ads and pretending to be phones

Researchers say around 38,000 H96 Android TV boxes are pulling double duty as ad-fraud bots and residential proxies, funnelling roughly $50,000 a day to a mainland China outfit called the Fengwo Group.

4 min read
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Fake 7-Zip Downloads Are Quietly Turning Home PCs Into Criminal Middlemen

A group Infoblox calls Lurking Lizard has been running a rogue proxy service from more than 230 lookalike sites since 2022, hiding the malware inside fake copies of the popular 7-Zip file compression tool.

3 min read
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Google and FBI Kneecap NetNut, Cutting Millions of Home Devices From Proxy Pool

Google's Threat Intelligence Group says a joint operation with the FBI and Lumen has stripped millions of infected home devices from NetNut, also tracked as Popa.

3 min read
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