Hacking Clients With Wpad Web Proxy Auto Discovery Protocol Updated 2021
Usually, the internal networks are configured so that internet traffic from clients is disallowed. This is because such traffic is hard to control. By forcing the users to connect through a proxy, all HTTP traffic can be inspected on application layers for arbitrary attacks, and detected threats can be easily blocked. Since attackers often use HTTPS traffic to circumvent IDS/IPS in such configurations, HTTPS traffic can also be inspected, but that forces the HTTPS sessions to be established from client to proxy and then from proxy to actual HTTPS web server – clients cannot establish an HTTPS session directly to an HTTPS web server....