{"id":11317,"date":"2026-03-13T07:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:03:41","slug":"authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud.<br \/>\n&#8220;SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,&#8221; the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. &#8220;The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. &#8220;SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,&#8221; the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}