A proxy botnet identified as ‘Socks5Systemz’ has been infecting computers across the globe with the ‘PrivateLoader’ and ‘Amadey’ malware loaders, with 10,000 infected devices currently.
The malware infects computers and transforms them into traffic-forwarding proxies for malicious, illegal, or concealed traffic. It supplies this service to customers who pay between $1 and $140 per day in cryptocurrency to access it.
Socks5Systemz is detailed in a BitSight report, which clarifies that the proxy botnet has been active since at least 2016, but has remained largely unnoticed until recently.
The Socks5Systemz bot is propagated by the PrivateLoader and Amadey malware, which are frequently distributed through phishing, exploit kits, malvertizing, trojanized executables downloaded from P2P networks, and other techniques.
The BitSight samples are called ‘previewer.exe,’ and their task is to inject the proxy bot into the h
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