With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the ...

The proxy is being distributed by the RIG and Fallout exploit kits. A previously undocumented proxy malware, dubbed “SystemBC,” is upping the stealth game by using SOCKS5 to evade detection. It’s ...

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the ...

After infecting Fiberhome routers, its sole purpose seems to be setting up SOCKS5 proxies. An odd botnet has been spotted targeting Fiberhome routers, in a quest to add 200 of them per day to its ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

Researchers at China’s Netlab 360 have discovered that thousands of routers manufactured by the Latvian company MikroTik have been compromised by malware attacking a vulnerability revealed April.

SOCKS is built in to OpenSSH, so it's a trivial matter to set up a local SOCKS proxy with the -D flag. For example: $ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server will open up the port 12345 on your local ...

Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security ...

So, I'm not quite sure if this should go here, the Networking Matrix, or Linux Kung-Fu. But, since the client that I'm currently on is a Win7 box, I'm starting here. Laptop (client) setup: Win7 x64; I ...