Resident Evil: Understanding Residential IP Proxy as a Dark Service

XiangHang Mi
5 min readJul 9, 2018

This article aims to present you our work on residential IP proxies and their security issues. A paper for our work has been accepted by IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019, the premier conference for computer security research. You can find more technical details from our research paper.

Web proxies are commonly used to serve various purposes such as identity anonymization, and accessing digital content only available in limited countries. However, traditional web proxies such as VPN, and newly emerging…

XiangHang Mi

I am a security researcher studying security problems in web, network and IoT. Please refer to my homepage for details: xianghang.me