Lurking Lizard Uses Fake 7-Zip Installers to Turn Victim Devices Into Proxy Nodes

A newly uncovered cybercriminal operation has been quietly turning ordinary computers into paid proxy servers for years, hiding behind a fake version of the popular 7-Zip file compression tool. Victims searching for the free archiving software were instead led to a lookalike site that installed hidden proxy software instead of the real program. Once running, […] The post Lurking Lizard Uses Fake 7-Zip Installers to Turn Victim Devices Into Proxy Nodes appeared first on Cyber Security News.