Your Business Internet Connection Might Be Someone Else's Alibi. The FBI Just Explained How.
FBI Advisory Network Hygiene August 2026 · 7 min read Most cyberattacks try to take something from you. This one is different: it doesn't steal your data, it borrows your identity on the internet. The FBI has warned that criminals are routing their traffic through home and small business internet connections — using ordinary devices as cover so their activity looks like it's coming from an ordinary business. Yours. Here's how a device gets quietly conscripted, what it costs you, and the short list of fixes. Every attack this series has covered has one thing in common: someone wanted something you had. Your credentials, your files, your customers' data, your money. The threat in this post breaks that pattern, and that's exactly why most businesses never see it coming. In a public service announcement, the FBI warned about what are called residential proxies. Strip out the jargon and the idea is simple....