IPinfo, a leading internet data company, announced on July 8, 2025, the launch of its Residential Proxy Detection API, expanding its privacy detection capabilities to tackle one of the most evasive forms of anonymized IP traffic. Available via API, downloadable database, and Snowflake integration, the solution helps enterprise fraud, risk, and security teams detect residential proxies used in fraud, account takeovers, and large-scale abuse.
Launch Date: July 8, 2025, Seattle, WA.
Features: Identifies residential proxy providers, last-seen timestamps, persistence scores, and mobile flags.
Use Cases: Fraud detection, threat intelligence, risk scoring, abuse mitigation.
Integration: API, database downloads, Snowflake, with 1B+ daily requests supported.
Clients: Trusted by 500,000+ users, including Fortune 500 companies like Amazon and PayPal.
Market: Targets $15B fraud prevention market, growing at 17% CAGR.
Residential proxies, routing traffic through real residential IPs often without the owner’s knowledge, bypass traditional detection by blending into legitimate traffic. IPinfo’s API counters this by providing detailed metadata, enabling teams to identify cloaked transactions, synthetic identities, and malicious activities like credential stuffing. Ben Dowling, CEO of IPinfo, stated, “Residential proxies are a preferred tactic of sophisticated attackers. The data we provide gives companies deeper insight into cloaked threats and the IP infrastructure behind them.”
Pinpoint Proxy Sources: Names specific proxy providers, allowing targeted blocking or risk scoring.
Contextual Risk Assessment: Includes last-seen and percent-days-seen metrics to gauge IP persistence.
Daily Updates: Reduces false positives by verifying data daily, catching newly rotated IPs.
Mobile Detection: Tags IPs exiting via carrier gateways, addressing short-lived fraud attacks.
Seamless Integration: Supports real-time and batch workflows via API, downloads, or Snowflake.
The solution enhances IPinfo’s existing Privacy Detection data, which identifies VPNs, relays, hosting providers, and Tor nodes, processing over 1 billion daily requests.
The global fraud prevention market, valued at $15 billion, is driven by rising cybercrime, with residential proxies enabling 60% of account takeover attempts, per 2024 reports. IPinfo’s solution, used by e-commerce, fintech, and adtech firms, reduces fraud losses by up to 30% and improves risk scoring accuracy. Posts on X, like @TheCyberSecHub, highlight its role in strengthening cybersecurity. The API’s availability on Snowflake and daily updates ensure scalability and precision, critical for enterprises facing 41% monthly changes in proxy IP data.
IPinfo is the internet data company, providing the world’s most accurate IP data that delivers highly contextual metadata on each IP address, from geolocation and mobile carrier to privacy detection and proxies. IPinfo is trusted by more than 500,000 users, from developers to Fortune 500 companies, who use IP data to make smarter decisions, mitigate security risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive better customer experiences. IPinfo’s robust and secure API processes more than 1 billion requests daily, with data also available through direct download and leading cloud platforms, all backed by a team of data experts who are committed to precision. Discover the power of better IP data
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