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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. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. SocksEscort[.]com

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Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Krebs on Security

com — is different from the one I saw in late December, but it was hosted at the same Internet address as officesuited[.]com Furthermore, even if an organization requires multi-factor authentication at sign-in, recall that this phish’s login process takes place on Microsoft’s own Web site.

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