<ul><li>Security researchers from Lumen's Black Lotus have disrupted the ngioweb botnet and the proxy service it powered.</li><li>The ngioweb botnet operated 35,000 bots across 180 countries, primarily used for the NSOCKS proxy service.</li><li>80% of NSOCKS bots originated from the ngioweb botnet, with two-thirds of the proxies based in the U.S.</li><li>Lumen took over a year to analyze the botnet and its operations, disrupting the botnet and its proxy service.</li></ul>

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

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