Cybercrime forum advertises alleged database, source code from Russian firm that helped Parler
A seller on a popular cybercrime forum appears to be offering up source code and a database they say belongs to DDoS-Guard, the Russia-based hosting site that helped right-leaning social media company Parler get back online after Amazon Web Services banished it. Parler billed itself as an alternative to Twitter after that social media firm cracked down on alt-right misinformation and disinformation, but found itself shunned by AWS and others after complaints about its safeguards against hate speech and calls for violence after the the Jan. 6 insurrection. Security vendor Group-IB, which noticed the listing, said that while DDoS-Guard offers hosting services and protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks, it also has been labeled a “bulletproof hosting” provider — one that’s lenient toward cybercriminals and other shady operators. The seller listed the DDoS-Guard database and source code for $350,000 on exploit.in, a long-running forum used mainly by Russian-speaking scammers that birthed […]
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