- Russian exiled media Meduza.io facing repeated DDoS attacksMeduza is one of the largest and most influential Russian regime critical news site that delivers daily news from all across Russia in Russian and English languages. Meduza operates in exile… Read more: Russian exiled media Meduza.io facing repeated DDoS attacks
- A journey into the Crypt of cloned mediaThe Scam Machinery – Did you see the Le Monde article revealing how Le-Pen earned a fortune on crypto trading? I checked out the trading platform she was using and… Read more: A journey into the Crypt of cloned media
- Deep fake of Maria Ressa connected to Russian cyberscam networkA deep fake video of Maria Ressa promoting the crypto-currency scam “Bitcoin Method” was released on Facebook on 6 February 2024. The AI edited video was based on Ressa’s appearance… Read more: Deep fake of Maria Ressa connected to Russian cyberscam network
- Adsterra used to promote malicious content using hacked Facebook pagesThe Nation Media Group is the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa with operations in print, broadcast and digital media serving audiences in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and… Read more: Adsterra used to promote malicious content using hacked Facebook pages
- Russian disinformation against Zelenskyy exposed on Times Square billboardOn 20 November 2023 a group of Twitter accounts shared a message with almost 200 media outlets and fact-checking organizations that included a video from a billboard in Time Square,… Read more: Russian disinformation against Zelenskyy exposed on Times Square billboard
- Proxy providers weaponized to launch denial of service attack against RapplerOn 30th of October (10:51am UTC), the Philippine news site Rappler received more than 40 Million requests to the their home page during less than one hour. Rappler is the… Read more: Proxy providers weaponized to launch denial of service attack against Rappler
- Hundreds of sites cloned to promote a Chinese gambling networkOur investigation started when the Philippine media outlet MindaNews, the news arm of the Mindanao Institute of Journalism, made Qurium aware that they had found a clone of their website… Read more: Hundreds of sites cloned to promote a Chinese gambling network
- DDoS attacks against Hungarian media traced to proxy infrastructure “White Proxies”– Attacks enabled by a stack of rotten actors During April- August 2023, more than 40 Hungarian media websites were targeted by waves of denial of service attacks which brought… Read more: DDoS attacks against Hungarian media traced to proxy infrastructure “White Proxies”
- Volatile networks as a source of Denial of Service– How to use expendable IP networks to conduct DDoS attacks Denial of service attacks and web scraping services share a common requirement, the access to large number of IP… Read more: Volatile networks as a source of Denial of Service
- Infrastructure of VPN providers is used to launch DDoS attacksQurium’s report Rayobyte infrastructure enabling DDoS attacks illustrates how the proxy provider’s infrastructure has been powering massive DDoS against independent media organizations. Digging deeper into the attack logs of the… Read more: Infrastructure of VPN providers is used to launch DDoS attacks
- Rayobyte infrastructure enabling DDoS attacks– Denial of service against Somali Journalists Syndicate launched from Sprious Group’s proxy infrastructure This forensic report is yet another example on how the self-proclaimed “ethical proxy services” are used… Read more: Rayobyte infrastructure enabling DDoS attacks
- Looking Inside A Website Traffic Con– A Digital Marketing Scam using SparkTraffic to create fake Google Analytics data To reach a wide and relevant audience is key for the success of any media outlet. Social… Read more: Looking Inside A Website Traffic Con