Top Abuses Of Open Web Proxies
ID: 8a626644-381e-5950-85b0-60919b7204f3
STIX ID: report--8a626644-381e-5950-85b0-60919b7204f3
Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog
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This report analyzes traffic observed on “elite” open web proxies and categorizes the primary abuses—distributed brute-force attacks against services like Yahoo and Rapidshare, large-scale forum/comment spam, pay-to-click fraud, IRC/ICQ masking, proxy discovery/testing, and automated site scraping—illustrating request patterns, sample log snippets, and the high volume of transactions (~250k) used to distribute or mask malicious activity.
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