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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. .” com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova.

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Growing Cyber Threats to the Energy and Industrial Sectors

NopSec

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. The SAaaS model is ideal for hacktivists and terrorists.