News report
Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet
KrebsOnSecurity, June 22, 2022. The RSOCKS operators' claimed successor service: a 17 June 2022 post by the Rsocks account on BlackHatWorld announcing 'RSocks ceases to exist' while promising that active plans and fund balances would be transferred to another, unnamed service..
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- June 22, 2022
- Research grade
- S2
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- KrebsOnSecurity
- Published
- June 22, 2022
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- What it supports
- The RSOCKS operators' claimed successor service: a 17 June 2022 post by the Rsocks account on BlackHatWorld announcing 'RSocks ceases to exist' while promising that active plans and fund balances would be transferred to another, unnamed service.
- Dataset id
- src_krebs_rsocks_administrators
Research notes
- By Brian Krebs.
- The announcement was posted 2022-06-17; the article is dated 2022-06-22.
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.
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Cited by
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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Unnamed successor proxy service claimed by RSOCKS operatorsLater outcome
Claimed return, RSOCKS proxy botnet disruption