Dangerous global botnet fueling residential proxies is being hit in major crackdown

• Security researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus were investigating the ngioweb botnet for more than a year
• After identifying the infrastructure and traffic, the company started blocking the data flow
• The botnet, and the proxy service NSOCKS, are severely disrupted as a result

Security researchers have disrupted a major malicious botnet, and thus also hurt the proxy service it powered.

Cybersecurity researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus have released a new report saying they blocked all traffic across their global network that went to, or from, the dedicated infrastructure associated with the ‘ngioweb’ botnet.