A trojanized installer of the well-known archiving program that transforms a user’s PC into a home proxy node is being distributed by a phony 7-Zip website.
In order to get around blockages and carry out different harmful tasks like phishing, malware distribution, and credential stuffing, residential proxy networks use home user devices to redirect traffic.
After a user claimed that, while following directions in a YouTube tutorial on building a PC system, they downloaded a malicious installer from a website posing as the 7-Zip project, the new campaign gained further attention. BleepingComputer is able to verify that 7zip[.]com, the fraudulent website, is still operational.
The threat actor registered the domain 7zip[.]com, which is still operational as of this writing and can easily fool people read more about Malicious 7-Zip site distributes installer laced with proxy tool.
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