Dragging Out Dragons - Slaying Hidden Threats in Residential Proxies
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Learn how machine learning techniques can identify and mitigate residential proxy threats that enable bots to bypass security defenses by mimicking legitimate user traffic. Discover the methods cybercriminals use to leverage residential proxies as their preferred tool for evading detection systems, and explore practical machine learning approaches for exposing these hidden threats at scale. Gain actionable insights for developing more effective detection systems that can distinguish between genuine residential traffic and malicious proxy activity while reducing false positive rates. Understand the technical challenges involved in identifying sophisticated proxy networks and examine real-world case studies demonstrating successful mitigation strategies for protecting against bot traffic that exploits residential IP addresses.
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BSidesSF 2025 - Dragging Out Dragons: Slaying Hidden Threats in Residential... (Christo Roberts)
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