Socks pulled, patches pushed.

CyberWire Daily roundup highlighting recent cybersecurity developments: Europol dismantled the SocksEscort proxy service; analysis of asymmetric cyber operations related to the war in Iran; Google issued patches for two Chrome zero-days exploited in the wild; Veeam and n8n fixed critical RCE flaws affecting backup and automation tooling; attackers are reported abusing backup tools for data theft; a former incident responder faces charges tied to ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware; and AI-generated content caused a fake flight evacuation story. The bulletin links to multiple news sources and advisories but does not provide deep technical analysis within this single item.