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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. SSC asked fellow forum members for help in testing the security of a website they claimed was theirs: myiptest[.]com

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

Enter BackTrack 3 in June 2008. Login sound System Updates A few months later, the team was once again at Black Hat USA & DEF CON, and were really excited by how many people were using their creation, and got to see first hand how people were using it. 2008 was no exception. Times were different to how it is now.

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