SocksEscort Criminal hosting and proxies
- Lead
- DOJ
- Result
- US seizure warrants executed against a few dozen US-registered domains; Europol reports 34 domains and 23 servers located in seven countries seized or taken down on the 11 March 2026 action day. The service had offered access to about 369,000 IP addresses since summer 2020 and listed about 8,000 infected routers as of February 2026, about 2,500 of them in the United States. US authorities froze about $3.5 million in cryptocurrency.
- Accountability
- No individual outcomes recorded
- Return status
- Not established in the public record