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US and European authorities disrupt socksEscort proxy service tied to AVrecon botnet

  • Pierluigi Paganini--Securityaffairs.com
  • published date: 2026-03-13 15:07:50 UTC

Authorities in the US and Europe disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service, which used the AVrecon botnet and infected about 360,000 devices since 2020. Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have disrupted SocksEscort, a malicious proxy service powered …

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