{"id":245467,"date":"2026-10-16T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hackers-hijack-d-link-ubiquiti-devices-to-resell-your-stolen-bandwidth"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:32:06","slug":"hackers-hijack-d-link-ubiquiti-devices-to-resell-your-stolen-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hackers-hijack-d-link-ubiquiti-devices-to-resell-your-stolen-bandwidth","title":{"rendered":"Hackers hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti devices to resell your stolen bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-hijack-d-link-ubiquiti-devices-to-resell-your-stolen-bandwidth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims\u2019 internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network.<\/p>\n<p>The operator installed Pawns.app, a legitimate bandwidth-sharing application that lets users earn money by sharing their internet connections, on devices without the owners\u2019 consent.<\/p>\n<p>Pawns.app account holders are rewarded for allowing traffic from other users to flow through their network, provided it runs on trusted, non-blocking IP addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims\u2019 internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. The operator installed Pawns.app, a legitimate bandwidth-sharing application that lets users earn money by sharing their internet connections, on devices without the owners\u2019 consent. Pawns.app account holders are rewarded for allowing traffic from other users to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}