DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’
Summary: A self-described Air National Guard member with top-secret clearance posted on Reddit that DSLRoot pays him $250 a month to host two laptops on dedicated DSL connections in his home, and the company confirmed it pays U.S. residents to run its hardware and rents those IP addresses as proxies for $190 a month. Reporting traces DSLRoot to a Bahamas company formed in 2012 with Russian and Eastern European origins, linked through shared domains and email addresses to Andrei Holas of Huntsville, Alabama, and to a BlackHatWorld user called USProxyKing who ran a pay-per-install adware program at $1 per installation.
What's compelling: An Arizona woman was sentenced in July 2025 to 102 months in prison for hosting a laptop farm that helped North Korean hackers get jobs at more than 300 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 firms - the same hardware-on-your-network arrangement DSLRoot is paying people to accept.
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