Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2026
Authorities in the US and Europe disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service, which used the AVrecon botnet and infected about 360,000 devices since 2020. Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have disrupted SocksEscort, a malicious proxy service powered by the AVrecon botnet. Active since 2020, the service hijacked roughly 360,000 devices and allowed cybercriminals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2023
The AVRecon botnet relies on compromised small office/home office (SOHO) routers since at least May 2021. In early July, researchers from Lumen Black Lotus Labs discovered the AVRecon botnet that targets small office/home office (SOHO) routers and infected over 70,000 devices from 20 countries. Threat actors behind the campaign aimed at building a botnet to […]
