FBI warns that criminals may use your home internet connection as proxy; how IP addresses are ‘hacked’ and tips to stay safe

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to raise awareness of residential proxies, the risks they pose, and steps the public can take to safeguard their devices from becoming part of a residential proxy network. Cyber threat actors use residential proxies to facilitate illicit activities, while hiding their true identities and locations by routing internet traffic through home and small business internet networks.

For those unaware, a residential proxy is an intermediary server between individuals and websites they visit to make their connections appear to originate elsewhere.