How Criminals Maintain Anonymity Online

Below is a video tutorial showing how cyberthieves cover their tracks and maintain their anonymity online using open socks proxies and open misconfigured VPN nodes. By using these open connections, thieves hope that law enforcement and other online monitoring entities will have a tougher time identifying their true source IP address.

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Cyber criminals tend to be very careful, but the same tool displayed here could also be used by law enforcement- and the IP addresses could be added to dynamic watch and block lists to prevent connections to enterprises.