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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports:

Over the past 15 years, a cybercrime anonymity service known as VIP72 has enabled countless fraudsters to mask their true location online by routing their traffic through millions of malware-infected systems. But roughly two weeks ago, VIP72’s online storefront — which ironically enough has remained at the same U.S.-based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished.

Read more on KrebsonSecurity.com.


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