New Research: How Peer2Profit and Astroproxy Turn Your Bandwidth Into Someone Else's Product
Brief
We joined a bandwidth-sharing network to see what actually happens to your IP address. The answer should worry every security team that assumes “not malware” means “not a risk.”
Key Findings
Residential proxies are almost invisible to security teams, yet they can expose organizations’ valuable internal resources to anyone with a proxy subscription.
PEER2PROFIT directly feeds ASTROPROXY. Silent Push confirmed an active, operational relationship between the two: PEER2PROFIT recruits everyday users and pays them for bandwidth, while ASTROPROXY resells that bandwidth commercially, at up to 27 times what the user was paid.
The scale is larger than a niche side-hustle app would suggest. Over a 72-hour enumeration window, we identified 117,224 unique IPs across ASTROPROXY’s residential, mobile, and datacenter pools, with the residential pool alone adding over 1,000 new IPs every hour.