Jun 25, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
This week I talked to the good folks at the Digital Citizens Alliance about a report on residential proxies. Say what? Residential proxies? What the heck are those? They are the apps and hardware…
Tom GalvinGuest
Lou CoveyHost
Steve JurisGuest
And what's happening is that the bad guys are using these IP addresses to camouflage themselves to do disreputable things and to hide from the authorities.

And this has kind of been an ongoing news story for the past week since it's shown up in the Wall Street Journal.

The pitch that I got from my buddy Adam Benson over at Verge PR, this is what it says.

More than 550 cyber threat groups, including actors linked to Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, and that's just the top of it, rely on residential proxy infrastructure to hide who they are and where they are operating from.

And what's happening is that the bad guys are using these IP addresses to camouflage themselves to do disreputable things and to hide from the authorities.

And this has kind of been an ongoing news story for the past week since it's shown up in the Wall Street Journal.

The pitch that I got from my buddy Adam Benson over at Verge PR, this is what it says.

More than 550 cyber threat groups, including actors linked to Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, and that's just the top of it, rely on residential proxy infrastructure to hide who they are and where they are operating from.
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