Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as “ Faceless ” has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. In this post we’ll examine clues left behind over the past decade by the proprietor of Faceless, including some that may help put a face to the name. The proxy lookup page inside the malware-based anonymity service Faceless. Image: spur.us. Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us, a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy [...]