☠️ The FBI announced the shutdown of the global hacking proxy service SocksEscort — during the operation, dozens of servers and domains were seized and millions of dollars in cryptocurrency were frozen.
The service used malware that infected home routers and devices worldwide, turning them into proxy nodes to hide cybercriminal activity. Through this network, attackers carried out fraud, account attacks, and other cybercrimes while masking their traffic as regular “home” IP addresses