17 million devices for rent: tracing a residential-proxy botnet from one cracked game

I got bored on a forum doing arithmetic on ‘millions of residential IPs’, ended up reverse-engineering a botnet’s C2 from one infected phone, and reported it. The whole messy thread — and where it led.

June 26, 2026 · 14 min · Vitalii Zaiats

From a proxy pool's torrents to a booby-trapped game

I chased a residential proxy pool’s own download habits down to one cracked driving game, and found a build that’s a confirmed ad-fraud carrier hiding an encrypted payload I still can’t prove is proxyware.

May 31, 2026 · 8 min · Vitalii Zaiats