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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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A malvertising campaign targets iPhone users with Krampus-3PC

Security Affairs

Once a reader visited a site and the compromised ad’s creative tag was loaded, Krampus-3PC unpacked th e code that is used to check (1) whether the ad was hosted by Adtechstack and (2) whether the ad was running on a targeted publisher. The adtech platform has blacklisted the advertiser and the malicious ad itself). Pierluigi Paganini.