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Sashaank
Jun 14, 2022Copper Contributor
MDE alerts with "Network traffic proxy redirector detected"
Hello all, In our SOC, we've been seeing alerts on MDE for Mozilla Firefox with a combination of "Network traffic proxy redirector detected" and "Connection to a custom network indicator" to doma...
kolafsson
Jun 20, 2022Copper Contributor
We have also been seeing this. I was thinking that it's the Firefox "Configure Proxy Access to the Internet" being set to 'auto-detect' or 'use system'. So I set it to "No Proxy" using GPO, but that doesn't appear to be it.
Bobbers
Jun 21, 2022Copper Contributor
My organization also started getting these recently, always Firefox, always alongside a trigger for a network event like a custom network indicator.
I think it's related to this - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections#w_loopback-connection
If accurate this is going to be a useless detection for Firefox. Has anyone seen this trigger on any other browsers?
I think it's related to this - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections#w_loopback-connection
If accurate this is going to be a useless detection for Firefox. Has anyone seen this trigger on any other browsers?
- JG-BurkeJun 22, 2022Brass ContributorThanks Bobbers
Loopback connection
A loopback connection (to IP address 127.0.0.1) can be made by Firefox on non-Unix machines. In this case the browser is communicating with itself as expected, and it is not recommended that this communication be blocked. See bug 100154 for more information.