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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Residential proxies also can refer to households protected by compromised home routers running factory-default credentials or outdated firmware. ” “He’s not even an information security specialist,” Quotpw said of Sergey. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

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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. .” WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT?

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