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Google's 2026 takedown named 13 proxy brands under IPIDEA: 922Proxy, PIA S5, IP2World and more, built on hijacked home devices. What it means for buyers.

AWM Proxy sold access to malware-infected PCs as proxies from 2008 until Google sued its operators in 2021. How it worked, who ran it, and the Glupteba link.

RSOCKS sold millions of hacked IoT devices as proxies until the FBI and DOJ seized it in June 2022. How it worked, who ran it, and what replaced it.

VIP72 sold access to malware-infected PCs as SOCKS proxies for 15 years, then vanished in 2021. Who ran it, how it worked, and the sourcing lesson.

Shifter.io used to be Microleaves, a proxy service Kaspersky flagged as a trojan and that leaked its own users in 2022. Here is the sourced history and why a rebrand does not reset a network's origins.

911 S5 was called the largest botnet ever: 19 million hijacked IPs sold as residential proxies via fake free VPNs. How it worked, how the FBI took it down, and the sourcing lesson.

The NetNut botnet takedown explained: how the FBI seized NetNut after Krebs tied it to Popa, a 2M-device proxy botnet, and why proxy sourcing decides all.