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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the very first “SSC” identity registered on the cybercrime forums happened in 2009 at the Russian language hacker community Antichat , where SSC registered using the email address adriman@gmail.com.

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