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Security Now 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat

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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

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    For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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