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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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Growing Cyber Threats to the Energy and Industrial Sectors

NopSec

SCADA Access As A Service (SAaaS) Cybercrime is a business. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. According to the information security giants, there is one known criminal that uses the handle of Bonito, and has been identified as selling access to SCADA systems.