In December 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a malware campaign stemming from pirate streaming sites. Using iframe malvertising redirector URLs to generate revenue, and redirects up to five layers deep, malware payloads hosted on GitHub, Discord and Dropbox, acted as a dropper for additional payloads hosted elsewhere. Microsoft says the goal was to steal information and it believes almost a million devices were infected.
Woah actually sounds interesting, and this is all possible just with adguard or how did you set it up?
I am looking into setting up Home Assistant once I’ve secure an appartement but it seems kinda complicated.
This is just AdGuard basically, I expanded my server system onto a dedicated PC that takes MUCH less power than my primary desktop, but you can run it in Docker Engine if you have one PC. As easy as running it, going to the webpage it runs on (usually IP:8080 I believe), choosing your settings, then going into router settings and changing DNS IP to the IP of the machine it runs on! Reading material
Quick tip: Use Linux or ProxMox if you go the dedicated route, but this requires some technical work. I thought I needed a more powerful CPU for my server machine when it was on Windows because it was frequently at 100% and stalling things, idling at 80% usage. I was wrong. Now running ProxMox and at least a dozen servers, it idles at 12%.
You point either your dns on the router to it, set it as the DHCP server (that’s what I had to do as my modem/router from att didn’t support dns change) or point your devices to it manually in their individual settings, which works if you only use them on that network or have it accessible on the net.
If you’re serious about a homelab, there’s a ton of info online, I highly recommend learning docker through Linux if you’re not already familiar with it, makes self hosting service a lot easier in most cases. I actually run Adguard home specifically in an LXC container in one of my proxmox nodes “bare metal”, however you can use docker for it as well, just was easier for me to not deal with port overlap