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The US has dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around the world while working as a proxy service.

A proxy server is a computer that sits between the user's internet connection and the internet itself. When a request for data comes in from your web browser, it goes out to the proxy server and then on to the website. The web server sees this as coming from the proxy instead of you which is why it gets called private proxies. Internet users often use proxies to access sites that are blocked by their ISP or school. Proxies can also be used as security, as they protect against certain types ...