Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. T…
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