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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

In a typical PPI network, clients will submit their malware—a spambot or password-stealing Trojan, for example —to the service, which in turn charges per thousand successful installations, with the price depending on the requested geographic location of the desired victims. AWM Proxy’s online storefront disappeared that same day.

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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. form [sic] hackers on public networks.”

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

An ad circa 2005 for A311 Death, a powerful banking trojan authored by “Corpse,” the administrator of the early Russian hacking clique Prodexteam. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org. Corpse/Revive also long operated an extremely popular service called check2ip[.]com

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