VPN & Proxy Detection — ItalyDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from Italy
Maskbreak scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from Italy. Free API. Under 40ms server-side. No CAPTCHAs.
The networks Italy traffic actually arrives from
Italy has 1,117 autonomous systems on the public registry. 70 of them are hosting, cloud or transit networks holding 48.6M addresses between them — the ranges a commercial VPN or datacenter proxy exits from. Residential broadband is the rest, and that is the traffic worth watching, because a residential proxy hides inside it.
| ASN | Network | IPv4 space |
|---|---|---|
| AS3269 | ASN-IBSNAZ | 20.5M addresses |
| AS1267 | ASN-WINDTRE IUNET | 7.4M addresses |
| AS30722 | VODAFONE-IT-ASN | 5.6M addresses |
| AS12874 | FASTWEB | 3.6M addresses |
| AS137 | ASGARR Consortium GARR | 2.7M addresses |
| AS16232 | ASN-TIM Service Provider | 1.8M addresses |
| AS8968 | BT-ITALIA | 822K addresses |
| AS3302 | AS-IRIDEOS | 616K addresses |
Largest hosting-shaped networks registered in Italy, by IPv4 allocation. Registry data, refreshed daily. A datacenter ASN is not evidence of fraud on its own — it is one signal, weighed alongside device and behaviour.
Why Italy traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
TIM and Vodafone consumer IPs are cycled through residential proxy networks for ad fraud at a high rate.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in Italy can appear in commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools. A consumer ISP label is not proof of fraud; combine it with device, session, and routing signals.
VPN exit-node clustering
The same handful of hosting providers dominate VPN exit nodes in Italy. Maskbreak maintains live mappings of these ranges so a new IP from a known VPN ASN is flagged within seconds of going live.
Antidetect browser usage
Multi-accounting fraud against Italian-targeted SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce increasingly uses Kameleo, GoLogin, or AdsPower to spoof device fingerprints. Maskbreak scores these at the device layer, not the IP layer.
What Maskbreak detects for Italy traffic
- Every major VPN provider's Italian exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools using consumer Italian IPs
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising Italian geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from Italy
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in Italy but the network telemetry says otherwise
One API call. Bearer token. Done.
// Server-side only: an sk_live_ key must never reach the browser.
const r = await fetch('https://maskbreak.com/v1/evaluate', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_live_...',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({ token: req.body.monocle })
});
const { decision, country, network } = await r.json();
if (country === 'IT' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
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