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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:
Companies like Infatica are paying app developers to include a SDK into their apps. This SDK transforms the users of these apps into docile botnet participants. Infatica's own customers are then using these residential, normal-user IPs to crawl the web (for AI data gathering purposes, for example).
Good write-up sounding the alarm: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/