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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Proxy services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT? com, super-socks[.]com,

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What is Malware? Definition, Purpose & Common Protections

eSecurity Planet

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. Firmware rootkits are also known as “hardware rootkits.”. Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet.

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Growing Cyber Threats to the Energy and Industrial Sectors

NopSec

SCADA Access As A Service (SAaaS) Cybercrime is a business. In 2008, the United States Department of Defence was compromised by an unknown foreign intelligence agency when an employee inserted a compromised USB flash drive into a government laptop computer. More often, though, it is spread indiscriminately via spam networks.