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bitsight.com
Company blog · bitsight.com/blogsecuritydata
bitsight.com is the company blog at bitsight.com, writing about security and data. Since 2021, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Mylobot: Investigating a Proxy Botnet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bitsight's blog for security research: Apple CVE tracking, DDoS attack analysis, the CrowdStrike outage traffic timeline, a Chinese GPS tracker vulnerability report, and botnet and residential proxy research.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Mylobot: Investigating a Proxy Botnet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-03
- Bitsight Identifies Security Cameras Accessible on the Internet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Automated Tank Gauge Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-28
- Identifying thousands of organizations using Internet-facing and exposed webcams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-09
What Hacker News says?
That question seems like it has to be framed in a misunderstanding of how secure you believe the iOS platform is. Here's a list of CVEs for iOS just this year: https://www.bitsight.com/blog/apple-vulnerabilities-cisa-kno... If you went back farther, you would find exploits that compromise your iOS device simply by receiving a compromised jpg image, not even by you opening the message. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets…
Comment linking /blog/apple-vulnerabilities-cisa-known-exploited-vulnerabilities
on “Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps”Submitted CrowdStrike Timeline Mystery as a story · 87 points
HN discussionKrebs' blog is nice, but quite often it's just re-reporting stuff from somewhere else: Original with more details: https://www.bitsight.com/blog/fuyao-enterprise-building-ad-f...
Comment linking /blog/fuyao-enterprise-building-ad-fraud-empire-ai-and-kids-coding-blocks
on “Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick”Submitted The Impact of the Kaspersky Ban as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThis image at https://www.bitsight.com/sites/default/files/2024/07/23/Uniq... makes a compelling argument that something happened concurrently with the third set of weekday peaks. Although considering how similar each peak was for the first two weeks I would say the divergence was earlier than the dotted line where the short sharp peak appeared. Something happened, the nature of that something might be unrelated to…
Comment linking /sites/default/files/2024/07/23/Unique%20IPs%20hourly%20avergae.png
on “CrowdStrike Timeline Mystery”Submitted Bitsight Identifies Security Cameras Accessible on the Internet as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSo it seems neither traffic came from Ukraine nor Dark Storm was probably behind the attack. The plot thickens! https://www.bitsight.com/blog/massive-ddos-cyber-fog
Comment linking /blog/massive-ddos-cyber-fog
on “What Happened with the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X”Submitted RapperBot: From Infection to DDoS in a Split Second as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIIRC the mylobot botnet is responsible for providing the vast majority of residential (home) IP addresses for residential VPN providers (who are then sold to expressvpn/nordvpn). The whole business is incredibly shady and nefarious and nordvpn/expressvpn must know from whom they contract their residential vpn services from. BHProxies is the largest residential proxy provider on the internet and almost all of their p…
Comment linking /blog/mylobot-investigating-proxy-botnet
on “The Mullvad Browser”Submitted Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Automated Tank Gauge Systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDirect link to the Bitsight report: https://www.bitsight.com/press-releases/bitsight-discovers-c...
Comment linking /press-releases/bitsight-discovers-critical-vulnerabilities-widely-used-vehicle-gps-tracker
on “Researchers: Chinese-made GPS tracker highly vulnerable”Submitted 40k exposed cameras streaming live on the internet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted (2025) Navigating the Noise: Separating Security Reality from Hype as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitsight Identifies Security Cameras Openly Accessible on the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Aftermath of the Kaspersky Ban as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Automated Tank Gauge Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identifying thousands of organizations using Internet-facing and exposed webcams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nearly 100k exposed industrial control systems (ICS) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evidence-Based Strategies to Lower Your Risk of Becoming a Ransomware Victim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoBleed: Unauthenticated memory-read vulnerability in MongoDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DDoS abusing SLP protocols on the rise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflective DoS amplification attack via SLP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mylobot: Investigating a Proxy Botnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mylobot: Investigating a Proxy Botnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webcams exposed and vulnerable all over the world as a story · 1 points
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