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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. There was a Deem3n® user on the webmaster forum Searchengines.guru whose signature in their posts says they run a popular community catering to programmers in Moldova called sysadmin[.]md co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Krebs on Security

What’s more, Tyler said the malicious app they tested was not visible as an add-in at the individual user level; only system administrators responsible for managing user accounts could see that the app had been approved.

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