Socks5Systemz Botnet Powers Illegal Proxy Service with 85,000+ Hacked Devices A malicious botnet called Socks5Systemz is powering a proxy service called PROXY.AM, according to new findings from Bitsight. “Proxy malware and services enable other types of criminal activity adding uncontrolled layers of anonymity to the threat actors, so they can Read more…
Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. “At least 80% of NSOCKS bots Read more…
Dancho Danchev’s Blog – Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: The 911 S5 Proxy Botnet The 911 S5 Proxies-as-a-Service was a prolific proxy service that was utilizing botnets to offer a very good degree of anonymity for the actions of its users online which often includes web sites scraping proxy Read more…
Serve As A Reverse Proxy To Protect Your Web Services From Attacks And Exploits SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. A web application firewall helps protect web apps by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Read more…
TheMoon Botnet Resurfaces, Exploiting EoL Devices to Power Criminal Proxy A botnet previously considered to be rendered inert has been observed enslaving end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices to fuel a criminal proxy service called Faceless. “TheMoon, which emerged in 2014, has been operating quietly while growing to over Read more…