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1. original reporting

   Peer2Profit AstroProxy Residential Proxy Network Exposes Internal Network Resources

   cyberpress.org · 53d ago · August 21st, 2026

   Residential proxy networks are often hard for security teams to detect, but new research shows they can create serious enterprise risks. Silent Push found that PEER2PROFIT, a bandwidth-sharing application, actively supplies residential proxy capacity to commercial provider ASTROPROXY. PEER2PROFIT pays users to share unused internet bandwidth through an app installed on their devices. ASTROPROXY then resells access to those connections as residential, mobile, and datacenter proxy services . Researchers confirmed the relationship by enrolling a controlled residential device in PEER2PROFIT and later detecting its IP address in ASTROPROXY’s proxy pool. The commercial gap is significant. PEER2PROFIT reportedly pays residential users about $0.28 per GB, while ASTROPROXY sells residential proxy traffic for $7.60 per GB. This model turns ordinary home and business internet connections into commercial proxy exit nodes. Silent Push observed 117,224 unique IP addresses across ASTROPROXY’s pools during a 72-hour enumeration effort. The residential pool accounted for 60,247 IPs and added an average of 1,071 new addresses per hour. This rapid rotation makes traditional IP reputation controls less effective because an IP can appear benign one hour and operate as a proxy exit node the next. Peer2Profit AstroProxy Exposes Resources The most serious finding involved access to internal network resources. ASTROPROXY reportedly blocked direct requests to private IP ranges, which are commonly used

2. update from gbhackers.com

   Peer2Profit Turns Employee Devices Into AstroProxy Nodes That Can Expose Internal Networks

   gbhackers.com · 53d ago · August 21st, 2026

   Residential proxy networks have become a key enabler for fraud, credential stuffing, account takeover, spam, and large-scale automated abuse. New research shows that PEER2PROFIT, a bandwidth-sharing application, can turn employee or personal devices into commercial proxy exit nodes that are then monetized through ASTROPROXY potentially exposing corporate IP space and internally reachable resources. The relationship […] The post Peer2Profit Turns Employee Devices Into AstroProxy Nodes That Can Expose Internal Networks appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform .