Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have disrupted SocksEscort, a malicious proxy service that facilitated criminal ...

A new module allows it to be rented to other malicious actors — and it’s likely other new capabilities are coming down the pike. TheMoon, an IoT botnet targeting home routers and modems, is entering a ...

Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed ...

International law enforcement agencies have struck a blow against the "SocksEscort" proxy botnet, comprising over 369.000 compromised devices.

After infecting Fiberhome routers, its sole purpose seems to be setting up SOCKS5 proxies. An odd botnet has been spotted targeting Fiberhome routers, in a quest to add 200 of them per day to its ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today revealed that it has dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and arrested a Russian and Moldovan national accused of running the network. The accused ...

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Since August 2025, KadNap has grown to ...

The US authorities have shut down a major botnet comprising tens of thousands of infected endpoints, which cyber-criminals hired to launch various attacks anonymously. The IPStorm botnet and its ...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has dismantled the infrastructure of what it described as a Russian botnet consisting of millions of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to the DoJ, ...

I made the most common homelab security mistake of all time (and I'm not alone) ...

Researchers have uncovered a massive campaign that delivered proxy server apps to at least 400,000 Windows systems. The devices act as residential exit nodes without users' consent and a company is ...