Lumen Technology’s Black Lotus Labs says residential proxy botnets are rapidly expanding, with nearly 60 million victim IP addresses observed worldwide and millions of devices being used to hide criminal traffic. The report warns that networks like IPIDEA can rebound quickly after disruption, and that the malicious proxy ecosystem is becoming a large, cooperative botnet supply chain. #Lumen #BlackLotusLabs #IPIDEA
Keypoints
- Residential proxy botnets are helping criminals evade detection by blending into legitimate traffic.
- Lumen has observed nearly 60 million victim IP addresses across the globe.
- About one in four compromised IPs are located in the United States.
- IPIDEA recovered quickly after disruption and later grew to about 10 million IPs.
- Black Lotus Labs tracks more than 30 malicious proxy botnet clusters that can move millions of IPs within hours.
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