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.
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%.
+1 for proxmox, I now have two nodes since I started the homelab journey a few months ago lol