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Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

Krebs on Security

This is evident by the apparent scale of the infrastructure behind a relatively new company based in Montenegro called PushWelcome , which advertises the ability for site owners to monetize traffic from their visitors. An ad from PushWelcome touting the money that websites can make for embedding their dodgy push notifications scripts.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

Sure enough, I found that Yalishanda was actively advertising on cybercrime forums, and that his infrastructure was being used to host hundreds of dodgy sites. Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz: