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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. SocksEscort[.]com

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems. Firewalls predate SIEMs.

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