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Comment by gnfargbl

6 months ago

True, but the bad actor's code doesn't typically run directly on the infected device. Typically the infected router or camera is just acting as a proxy.

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mike_hearn  6 months ago

There are ways to detect that and it will still require a lot of CPU and ram behind the proxies.

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