VPN & Proxy Detection — NorwayDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from Norway
Maskbreak scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from Norway. Free API. Under 40ms server-side. No CAPTCHAs.
The networks Norway traffic actually arrives from
Norway has 311 autonomous systems on the public registry. 27 of them are hosting, cloud or transit networks holding 12.8M 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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS2119 | TELENOR-NEXTEL Telenor Norge AS | 4.2M addresses |
| AS2116 | GLOBALCONNECT- | 1.8M addresses |
| AS25400 | TELIA-NORWAY-AS Telia Norway Core Networks | 1.6M addresses |
| AS5619 | NO-TTSN-ASN1 TietoEVRY Norway | 1.2M addresses |
| AS29695 | ALTIBOX_AS Norway | 1.1M addresses |
| AS224 | UNINETT UNINETT, The Norwegian University & Research Network | 1.1M addresses |
| AS15659 | NEXTGENTEL NEXTGENTEL Autonomous System | 238K addresses |
| AS34087 | NTE-BREDBAND NIX 1, Oslo, Norway | 153K addresses |
Largest hosting-shaped networks registered in Norway, 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 Norway traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
The VPN footprint is small and dominated by Telenor consumer ranges resold via residential proxy services.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in Norway 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 Norway. 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 Norwegian-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 Norway traffic
- Every major VPN provider's Norwegian exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools using consumer Norwegian IPs
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising Norwegian geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from Norway
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in Norway 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 === 'NO' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
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