The Residential Proxy Threat - Malicious Proxies in Your Living Room
A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks and used to mask major cyberattacks—possibly even targeting your own home network. • Worries of AI-power cyberattacks are spreading. • Mythos “missed some” important vulnerabilities in Firefox. • Every recent patch Tuesday Nightmare Eclipse has struck. What now? • Massive store of valid FortiGate VPN credentials found. • F5 issues emergency updates to their NGINX-based server offerings. • Introducing “AI Potpourri” -- deeply altering an AI's personality. • A close look at the explosion in malicious proxy networks. • A Canadian judge okayed the illegal removal of such infections Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1084-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Security Now episode 1084 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1084 Sponsors: • http://doppel.com • http://trustedtech.team/securitynow365 • http://XBOW.com • http://threatlocker.com/twit • http://guardsquare.com Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: https://grc.com/ also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.