Hot on the heels of the LeakBase takedown, the combined might of the U.S. Department of Justice and Europol brought down another gigantic botnet, the SocksEscort proxy network, in an effort spanning a total of nine countries.
The enterprise ran for an estimated 16 years, with its inception circa 2010, infecting a grand total of 369,000 devices across its lifetime. The botnet comprised mostly home routers, access points, and IoT devices across 163 countries.
