Proxy Network Crushed: 369,000 Hacked Routers Taken Offline in Crypto Fraud Bust
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 pow...
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