Authorities Shut Down Proxy Service Linked to Malware Campaign Targeting Thousands of Users

 A coordinated international law enforcement operation successfully dismantled SocksEscort, a massive malicious residential proxy network. Led by the U.S. Justice Department alongside several European allies, the operation disrupted a sophisticated infrastructure that compromised thousands of residential and small business routers…

Academia and the “AI Brain Drain”

In 2025, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta collectively spent US$380 billion on building artificial-intelligence tools. That number is expected to surge still higher this year, to $650 billion, to fund the building of physical infrastructure, such as data centers (see…

SIEM isn’t dead, its place in the SOC is just evolving

<p>Predictions about the death of <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/security-information-and-event-management-SIEM”>SIEM</a> platforms have swirled for years, fueled by reports of alert fatigue, sky-high data costs and the shiny promises of extended detection and response (<a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/extended-detection-and-response-XDR”>XDR</a>), security data lakes and, now, <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/tip/What-agentic-AI-means-for-cybersecurity”>agentic AI</a>.…