Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries

A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud.
« SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware, » the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. « The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet