Free proxy service found running on top of 2,600+ hacked WordPress sites

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WordPress sites hacked and infected with Ngioweb Linux malware; hijacked into commercial proxy service.

A website offering both free and commercial proxy servers is actually running on top of a giant botnet of hacked WordPress sites, security researchers from Netlab, a network threat hunting unit of Chinese cyber-security giant Qihoo 360, have revealed.

In a report published today, Netlab researchers accused the Free-Socks.in proxy service of masquerading as a front for a criminal operation. Researchers said that users who would use any of the proxy servers provided by the Free-Socks.in website would actually have their traffic funneled through a network of hacked WordPress sites spread all over the world.
 

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