Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.”

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Critical Manufacturing Sector Vulnerable to Attacks

New telemetry from SecurityScorecard reflects a 38% rise in high-severity flaws in manufacturing organizations. Almost half of the critical manufacturing organizations, 48%, received poor security ratings on SecurityScorecard’s platform. It is cru…

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