Fake VPN and 7-Zip Apps Turn Victims Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Fake VPN and 7-Zip Apps Turn Victims Into Residential Proxy Nodes

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Fake apps like WireVPN and a trojanized 7-Zip turn victims’ devices into residential proxies, letting criminals route traffic through their IPs. Infoblox’s threat research team started pulling on a single thread in early 2026: a fake version of the 7-Zip archive utility hosted at 7zip[.]com instead of the real site, 7-zip[.]org. The researchers uncovered aSecurity AffairsRead More