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SANS Stormcast Friday, January 30th, 2026: Residential Proxy Networks; Clowdbot/Moltbot Themed Malware; eScan Malicious Updates

Episode 9788 Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network
Google dismantled the IPIDEA network that used residential proxies to route malicious traffic.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network
Fake Clawdbot VS Code Extension Installs ScreenConnect RAT
The news about Clawdbot (now Moltbot) is used to distribute malware, in particular malicious VS Code extensions.
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/fake-clawdbot-vscode-extension-malware
Threat Bulletin: Critical eScan Supply Chain Compromise
Anti-virus vendor eScan was compromised, and its update servers were used to install malware on some customer systems.
https://www.morphisec.com/blog/critical-escan-threat-bulletin/
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