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AttackFeed by Joe Wagner | Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries  - The Hacker News

Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries  – The Hacker News

Posted on March 13, 2026 By [email protected] (The Hacker News)
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A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud.
“SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. “The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet  –

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