Gray market services known as 'bulletproof' hosts have been targeted by law enforcement, leading to a shift towards using purpose-built VPNs and proxies to hide malicious web traffic.
Cybercriminals are increasingly using residential proxies and decentralized platforms to mask their activity and make it difficult for law enforcement to track them.
Attackers are utilizing proxies to make malicious traffic appear legitimate, posing challenges to organizations' threat detection tools.
Law enforcement faces difficulties in targeting malicious proxy providers due to the widespread use of proxies in legitimate internet services.