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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. .

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Magecart campaign abuses legitimate sites to host web skimmers and act as C2

Security Affairs

. “Attackers employ a number of evasion techniques during the campaign, including obfuscating Base64 and masking the attack to resemble popular third-party services, such as Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager.” or in vulnerable third-party services and components used by the website.

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