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The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they'd made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor's high-speed Internet connection in the United States.

I spent a few days working with another researcher to dig into the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest "residential proxy" networks with origins in Russia and Eastern Europe. Its proprietor used to call himself the "USProxyKing" on the forums, and built his proxy business through pay-per-install affiliate programs and by uploading booby-trapped cracked software and movies to the file-sharing networks.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/dslroot-proxies-and-the-threat-of-legal-botnets/