Malicious Attacks Use Log4j Bugs

An increasingly popular form of fraud that utilizes legitimate proxyware services to hijack legitimate ones has been identified by threat actors. Some services allow people to sell Internet bandwidth to third parties to make extra money. According to researchers from Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT), large-scale attacks exploiting cloud-based systems can bring cybercriminals hundreds of thousands of dollars of passive income per month by exploiting this vector – dubbed “proxy jacking” – that is used by attackers to obtain access to the server. 

Many companies now charge customers a fee for using a different Internet Protocol (IP) address when watching YouTube videos that aren’t available in their region, scraping and surfing the web without attribution, or browsing dubious websites without attribution of their IP address. This kind of service can be found in dozens of companies now. 

As part of the proxyware ecosystem, you can find legitimate businesses overseas selling it as proxyware. These businesses include IPRoyal, Honeygain, and Peer2Profit. The concept has, as expected, also attracted the attention of cybercriminals, and its potential can also be exploited. 

As proxyware services have grown and become popular in recent years, proxy jacking has become an increasingly prevalent phenomenon brought about by this growing use. Proxyware services o

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