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Authorities pulled the plug on the Socksescort proxy empire, freezing $3.5 million in crypto and exposing a global router botnet. U.S. and European authorities have dismantled Socksescort, a residential proxy network powered by AVRecon malware that quietly hijacked more than 369,000 devices across 163 countries. Operating since 2020, the service sold access to infected home […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/proxy-network-crushed-369000-hacked-routers-taken-offline-in-crypto-fraud-bust/