{"id":233213,"date":"2026-03-13T03:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:37:04","slug":"authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-botnet-exploiting-369000-ips-across-163-countries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Operation Lightning dismantled SocksEscort proxy botnet exploiting 369,000 IPs in 163 countries, disrupting fraud networks and freezing $3.5M crypto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Lightning dismantled SocksEscort proxy botnet exploiting 369,000 IPs in 163 countries, disrupting fraud networks and freezing $3.5M crypto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}