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Dangerous global botnet fueling residential proxies is being hit in major crackdown


Lumen and partners disrupt operations of NSOCKS proxy

Cybersecurity researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus have released a new report saying they blocked all traffic across their global network that went to, or from, the dedicated infrastructure associated with the ‘ngioweb’ botnet. This “notorious criminal proxy service”, as Black Lotus describes it, is linked to the threat actor known as Muddled Libra. “At least 80% of NSOCKS bots in our telemetry originate from the ngioweb botnet, mainly utilizing small office/home office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices.

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