Bob McMillan

There's software you can download that will put you on a residential proxy network without your knowledge or consent.

There's a lot of—and there are devices you can buy that will also do that.

One place you need to be wary in is if you're downloading an app or buying a device that's going to let you watch content for free that you're supposed to be paying for, there's a decent chance that's going to put you on a residential proxy network.

Like that's a very common way.

Yeah, nothing is truly free.

Yeah, yeah.

There's a reason why you're getting something that seems too good to be true.

One of the companies in Big Pipes was looking at the traffic that was hitting their network.

And they realized that one of their own employees, like the IP address of one of their own employees, was launching the attack.

So they reached out to that employee and they said, could you do some technical stuff on the network and see what is going on?

And so that gave them something to look at, right?

So they look at this device and they start trying to figure out why it's doing it.

And they realized that something in this device was also allowing it to be part of Kim Wolf.

Then it sort of pointed to like, are these devices somehow being hacked?

That was like the question to get onto the Kim Wolf network.

Instead of going to another place on the Internet, the hackers were saying, take us to someplace on your local network.

Take us to this part of your phone where we can get control of your whole phone or your whole picture frame or your whole streaming device.

They were only supposed to be using the residential proxy to visit the Internet, not to visit local networks.

The people in Big Pipes, they would have eventually figured this out, but they sure got a lot of help from Ben.

Bob McMillan again.