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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Festi also was the botnet used in the DDoS attack that sent Vrubelvsky to prison for two years in 2013.

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

Krebs on Security

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. ” Ark-x2[.]org

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