DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’
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Summary
A discussion on Reddit this month caused considerable head-scratching in the cybersecurity community, when a self-described National Guard member said they’d been getting paid $250 a month to host equipment from a Russian residential proxy provider called DSLRoot.
The company, which is based in the Bahamas and was formed in 2012, is advertised as a residential proxy service priced at $190 per month that lets customers appear as if they’re in the United States, even if they’re not.
DSLRoot pays people in the U.S. to run the company’s hardware and software, including 5G mobile devices, and in return it rents those IP addresses as dedicated proxies to customers anywhere in the world.
Many readers rubbed their eyes in disbelief that a guarded military man would agree to such an arrangement.
Others noted that this sort of thing may not be entirely aboveboard — especially for those in the military.