SYSTEMBC MALWARE TURNS INFECTED VPS SYSTEMS INTO PROXY HIGHWAY

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SystemBC is a proxy botnet providing a highway for malicious traffic, with an average of 1,500 bots/day. It primarily recruits bots by compromising VPS systems with at least one vulnerability, making up over 80% of the bots. Some customers of SystemBC include REM Proxy, a Russian web-scraping service, and a Vietnamese-based proxy network.