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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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TL;DR: They used free VPN called Big Mama.
From their FAQ: https://bigma.org/faq.html
So it's literally up front and in their FAQ that they do this. So why is this a story?
Because scary words!
What does this mean? What use would "their clients" need access to your network? What are they routing to through your network and how does that help with efficiency?
IP addresses.
Their commercial clients are doing things that give IPs bad reputation or banned from services, so they use this service to get access to home IPs to use.
So scammers and similar ilk?
It would not shock me if companies like OpenAi would have used something like this so they could harvest large amounts of data without setting off usage limits. While sketchy not sure if this counts as scammy.