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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

. “The malware has been used to create residential proxy services to shroud malicious activity such as password spraying , web-traffic proxying and ad fraud,” the Lumen researchers wrote. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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