“No seller on BHW has 150k working daily proxies none of us do. “User states has 150k proxies,” the forum skeptic wrote. One of BlackHatWorld’s moderators asked the administrator of the forum to review the Microleaves post. At the time, the Microleaves user said their proxy network had 150,000 IPs globally, and was growing quickly. The very first discussion thread started by the new user Microleaves on the forum BlackHatWorld in 2013 sought forum members who could help test and grow the proxy network. Proxy traffic related to top Microleaves users, as exposed by the website’s API. Currently, Spur is tracking roughly a quarter-million proxies associated with Microleaves/Shifter each day, with a high rate of churn in IPs.Įarly on, this rather large volume of IP addresses led many to speculate that Microleaves was just a botnet which was being resold as a commercial proxy service. Riley Kilmer, co-founder of the proxy-tracking service, said that 20-30 million number might be accurate for Shifter if measured across a six-month time frame. KrebsOnSecurity declined the offer and requested that Shifter donate the amount to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights group.įrom its inception nearly a decade ago, Microleaves has claimed to lease between 20-30 million IPs via its service at any time.
In response to a report about the data exposure from KrebsOnSecurity, Microleaves said it was grateful for being notified about a “very serious issue regarding our customer information.”Ībhishek Gupta is the PR and marketing manager for Microleaves, which he said in the process of being rebranded to “ Shifter.io.” Gupta said the report qualified as a “medium” severity security issue in Shifter’s brand new bug bounty program (the site makes no mention of a bug bounty), which he said offers up to $2,000 for reporting data exposure issues like the one they just fixed. The service, which accepts PayPal, Bitcoin and all major credit cards, is aimed primarily at enterprises engaged in repetitive, automated activity that often results in an IP address being temporarily blocked - such as data scraping, or mass-creating new accounts at some service online. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes.
Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. The Microleaves proxy service, which is in the process of being rebranded to Shifter[.[io.
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