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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Some possible avenues of infection include exploiting weak or default administrative credentials on routers, and outdated, insecure firmware that has known, exploitable security vulnerabilities. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net.

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