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Europol: Criminal Proxy Service Paralyzed with 370,000 Routers and Iot Devices

Europol and international partners have smashed a bot network with hundreds of thousands of infected routers and IoT devices in Operation Lightning. The network offered cybercriminals worldwide anonymity for their attacks as a proxy service "SocksEscort" Europol, together with international partner authorities, has smashed the malicious proxy service "SocksEscort." This service used a bot network of compromised routers and IoT devices built over…
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Europol and international partners have smashed a bot network with hundreds of thousands of infected routers and IoT devices in Operation Lightning. The network offered cybercriminals worldwide anonymity for their attacks as a proxy service "SocksEscort" Europol, together with international partner authorities, has smashed the malicious proxy service "SocksEscort." This service used a bot network of compromised routers and IoT devices built over…

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b2b-cyber-security.de broke the news in on Friday, March 20, 2026.
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