News report
Law Enforcement Dismantles SocksEscort Proxy Network in Operation Lightning
Infosecurity Magazine, March 13, 2026. Infrastructure seized against SocksEscort in Operation Lightning: 34 domains and 23 servers located in seven countries, taken down on the 11 March 2026 action day..
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- March 13, 2026
- Research grade
- S2
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- Infosecurity Magazine
- Published
- March 13, 2026
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- What it supports
- Infrastructure seized against SocksEscort in Operation Lightning: 34 domains and 23 servers located in seven countries, taken down on the 11 March 2026 action day.
- Dataset id
- src_infosecurity_socksescort_lightning_2026
Research notes
- By Beth Maundrill.
How this source is used
Cited 1 time across 1 record type.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Infrastructure
1 citation
Cited for infrastructure recorded as acted on.
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34 domainsSupporting source
Domains seized, SocksEscort proxy network disruption