Over the past year, teenagers have produced video tutorials showing how to side-load a virtual private network (VPN) onto Meta's virtual reality headsets and use the location-changing technology to get ahead in the game.
While the workaround is likely to be an annoying but relatively harmless bit of in-game cheating, there's a catch. The free VPN app that the video tutorials point to, Big Mama VPN, is also selling access to its users' home internet connections.
Researchers at cybersecurity company Trend Micro first spotted Meta's VR headsets appearing in its threat intelligence residential proxy data earlier this year, before tracking down that teenagers were using Big Mama to play Gorilla Tag.
This technique of rerouting traffic, which is best known as a residential proxy, has become increasingly popular with cybercriminals who use proxy networks to conduct cyberattacks and use botnets.
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