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Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-07-09

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains.

The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox. One such campaign, observed earlier this year, involved the

Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/fake-7-zip-installers-turn-devices-into.html