The hidden market turning home internet connections into cover for hackers

The report reveals that residential proxy services, compromised or poorly designed streaming devices, and passive-income apps are turning ordinary U.S. home internet connections into cover for cybercrime and state-linked activity. Researchers observed devices and services routing traffic through servers in China and Russia, tracked millions of residential IPs reused across proxy providers, and warn this infrastructure can hide fraud, espionage, and other malicious activity while exposing unsuspecting households to legal and privacy harms.