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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

TB LDLC Source (New) Retail France Yes 1,500,000 APROA Source (New) Professional services Argentina Yes 1,197,562 Petrus Resources Ltd. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Hidden Web: Microformats and the The Next Internet

ChiefTech

The Next Internet – The Hidden Web James Dellow, August 2003 (Draft 4) Web services and XML have the potential to turn our idea of the Internet upside down. But forget Internet 2, the Hidden Web is quite literally where the action will be. But in the Hidden Web, the “service&# is the Internet.