Cybercriminals Shift to Proxies to Mask Their Activities

To evade law enforcement, cybercriminals are increasingly using proxy servers and VPNs to mask their malicious activities. Previously reliant on 'bulletproof' hosting providers, the crackdown on these services has forced a shift. Criminals now leverage residential proxies and other decentralized services, using ordinary consumer IP addresses to obscure their operations, making tracking and identification extremely difficult. This transition presents new challenges to cybersecurity, requiring law enforcement to develop new strategies to combat increasingly sophisticated cybercrime.