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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. Over the past decade, both Glupteba and AWM Proxy have grown substantially. But on Dec.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

Kilmer said when Spur first started looking into Faceless, they noticed almost every Internet address that Faceless advertised for rent also showed up in the IoT search engine Shodan.io Those with IoT zero-days could expect payment if their exploit involved at least 5,000 systems that could be identified through Shodan.

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