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Trojanized 7-Zip downloads turn home computers into proxy nodes

A trojanized version of the popular 7-Zip software is quietly turning home computers into residential proxy nodes, Malwarebytes warns. Spurred by a Reddit post in which a user complained about getting infected with malware after downloading 7-Zip from 7zip[.]com instead of the legitimate 7-zip.org, Malwarebytes researchers looked into the matter and found that the malicious…