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 **Address:** [https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/06/meet-the-administrators-of-the-rsocks-proxy-botnet/](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/06/meet-the-administrators-of-the-rsocks-proxy-botnet/) **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. Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here. ## Cited by ### Later activity 1 citation Cited for activity recorded after the takedown. - [Unnamed successor proxy service claimed by RSOCKS operators](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/rsocks-proxy-botnet-disruption) Claimed return, RSOCKS proxy botnet disruption Later outcome [All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)