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Lurking Lizard: How a China-Linked Cybercrime Group Built a Global Residential Proxy Network Through Fake Software
Infoblox and The Hacker News disclosed in July 2026 that Lurking Lizard, a China-based financially motivated threat group, operates an industrial-scale residential proxy business sustained by trojaned installers for legitimate software. The network has processed hundreds of millions of proxy requests and is actively rented to criminal and espionage-linked operators.