01-07-2021 , 04:53 PM
Quote:Malware operators who want to know the location of the victims they infect usually rely on a simple technique where they grab the victim's IP address and check it against an IP-to-geo database like MaxMind's GeoIP to get a victim's approximate geographical location.
While the technique isn't very accurate, it is still the most reliable method of determining a user's actual physical location based on data found on their computer.
Source(full read)- https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-us...ification/