Android phones hijacked by IPIDEA proxy network through 600+ apps turned 9 million devices into unwitting tools for hackers ...

Google says it disrupted a massive residential proxy network that secretly turned consumer devices into traffic relays for ...

IPIDEA, one of the largest residential proxy networks that enrolled devices through SDKs for mobile and desktop, has been ...

The discovery triggered what Google is calling the largest residential proxy network takedown in history. Armed with a federal court order, the company pulled the plug ...

Kimwolf grew rapidly in the waning months of 2025 by tricking various “residential proxy” services into relaying malicious commands to devices on the local networks of those proxy endpoints.

A criminal proxy network has been found infecting thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) and end-of-life (EoL) devices, converting them into part of a botnet that provides anonymity for malicious users ...

A proxy service is a network solution that acts as an intermediary between a device and the Internet. It enables users to hide their IP address, bypass internet restrictions, and add an extra layer of ...