- Mar 9, 2019
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The US Department of Justice and the Black Lotus Labs team at telecom company Lumen Technologies announced on Friday the takedown of two proxy services powered by a botnet of thousands of hacked devices.
The Justice Department has worked with Lumen and police in the Netherlands and Thailand to dismantle the proxy services named Anyproxy and 5socks. Their domains have been seized and Lumen has disrupted infrastructure by null-routing all traffic to and from known control points.
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