VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
A free VPN app called Big Mama is selling access to people’s home internet networks. Kids are using it to cheat in a VR game while researchers warn of bigger security risks.
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Why would I buy access to my home network?
"Residential IPs" are quite valuable for web scraping. Many scraping prevention tools and services use the source IP as the primary metric. If you come from a public cloud provider like AWS, GCP or DigitalOcean you get blocked 99% of the time. If you come from a US residential ISP then you get much more relaxed screening.
Someone who is planning to commit crime could do so from your home IP address. At best, the police/FBI recognize that you didn't do the crime. At worst, you get charged for something you didn't do.