Security News > 2024 > November > Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices
2024-11-19 14:01
The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. "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," the Black Lotus Labs team at
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