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Qurium's digital forensics investigations focus on Internet censorship, disinformation campaigns, DDoS attacks, targeted phishing campaigns against media and human rights organizations.


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    On 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 RapplerDecember 5, 2023
    On 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 networkNovember 15, 2023
    Our 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
  • Rotten fruit. An illustration of how the Internet is full of rotten actors.
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    – 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 ServiceSeptember 19, 2023
    – 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 attacksSeptember 7, 2023
    Qurium’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 attacksSeptember 7, 2023
    – 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 ConDecember 21, 2022
    – 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
  • Under the hood of a DoppelgängerSeptember 27, 2022
    Media clones serving Russian propaganda This work is the result of a collaboration with EU DisinfoLab an independent non-profit organization focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU. EU… Read more: Under the hood of a Doppelgänger

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