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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

.” Lumen’s research team said the purpose of AVrecon appears to be stealing bandwidth – without impacting end-users – in order to create a residential proxy service to help launder malicious activity and avoid attracting the same level of attention from Tor-hidden services or commercially available VPN services. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

Okta was breached through one of its service providers, Sitel, itself compromised via the insecure VPN gateway of a recently acquired company. In both cases, we described new UEFI firmware bootkits that managed to propagate malicious components from the deepest layers of the machine up to Windows’ user-land. The next WannaCry.

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