Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers

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A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday.

The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered paid proxy services and was built on a botnet of hacked routers used to commit various crimes, such as hacking into victims’ bank and cryptocurrency accounts and filing fraudulent unemployment insurance claims, according to an announcement published on Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ said the crimes facilitated by SocksEscort cost Americans millions of dollars.  

Source: Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers – Read full article at TechCrunch

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