{"id":7431,"date":"2026-03-13T07:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:12:23","slug":"authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA 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\u00a0A 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA 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) said. &#8220;The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet\u00a0A court-authorized international law&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}