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Evooo1Bot Botnet Turns Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies
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Evooo1Bot, a Mirai-derived Linux botnet, exploits known flaws to infect edge devices and turn them into SOCKS5 proxies. Active since July 2026, it targets vulnerabilities in Hikvision, Atlassian, Zyxel, TP-Link, D-Link, and Kubernetes. Encrypted C2 communications hide traffic on port 443.
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