Press release: Hundreds of sites cloned to promote a Chinese gambling network
15 November 2023 Online gambling is an industry that moves a huge economy. Its global market size is expected to grow with 9,3% from 2022 to 89 billion dollars (89,000,000,000) in 2023 according to market research. The Asia-Pacific region, including large economies like China and India, was the largest gambling region in the world in […]
DDoS attacks against Hungarian media traced to yet another proxy provider
– Attacks enabled by a stack of rotten actors 2 November 2023 No less than 40 Hungarian websites, nearly all of them regime critical media outlets, have suffered waves of DDoS attacks from April to September 2023. When the International Press Institute (IPI) reported on the attacks in late August, they became the next victim […]
Volatile networks used in DDoS attacks to silence media
19 September 2023 On September 7, Qurium reported how the infrastructure of proxy and VPN providers shamelessly is used to silence independent media in repressive regimes. Today we are following up with the third forensic report in the series Weaponizing Proxy and VPN Providers focusing on how network providers and hosting facilities use expendable IP […]
One year’s research of Qurium shows how proxy and VPN providers are used to conduct DDoS attacks
Somali journalist union under DDoS attack September 7, 2023 The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) is a union with the mission to defend the rights of journalists and promote press freedom in Somalia, a country where journalists operate in a corrupt and violent environment. With more than 50 media workers killed since 2010, Somalia is the […]
QURIUM RESEARCH BEHIND WORLD STORY ON DISINFORMATION MERCHANTS
– Director of Eliminalia once again involved In January 2022, Qurium stumbled upon a number of fake news sites that flooded the web with made-up content to suppress legitimate articles and investigations by human rights groups and renowned journalists. All these “flooding websites” originated with “Communication Media Group”, CMG, located between a hardware store and […]
Looking Inside of the Traffic Cons
21 December, 2022 Demonstrating online impressions is key for media to show their reach and to attract investors and advertisers to their projects. These impressions can be counted as Likes, Views, Subscriptions, or Followers. For websites, Google Analytics is commonly used to track such visibility and online presence over web traffic. Ad fraud is a […]
Under the hood of a Doppelgänger
September 27, 2022 ONLINE DISINFORMATION is one of the defining issues of our time and the influence of fake news has become an acute threat to our society. Disinformation undermines true journalism and steers the public opinion in highly charged topics such as immigration, climate change, armed conflicts or refugee and health crises. Social media […]
The kompromat DeLorean – time traveling to hide evidence
July 11, 2022 Emilia Sercan is a Romanian investigative journalist specialized in plagiarism in doctoral dissertations. During the past seven years, she has exposed around 50 individual cases of plagiarism in doctoral dissertations of top Romanian politicians, including the current Prime Minister, ministers of the parliament, politicians, intelligence generals, army generals, police quaestors, professors, prosecutors, […]
Weaponizing Instagram against the Iranian #MeToo movement
June 16th, 2022 In April 2022, a number of Iranian feminist Instagram accounts become target of an unusual attack. The accounts were flooded by fake followers, and during the course of four weeks, around 1 million bots flooded 25 Instagram accounts connected to the Iranian #MeToo movement. The objective of the attack can be discussed, […]
How the thriving fraud industry within Facebook attacks independent media
May 5th, 2022 No eyebrows were raised in Quriums security operation center when the independent Philippine media outlet Bulatlat once again got DDoSed, as they are a frequent target of such digital attacks. However, when we noticed that the attack traffic came from valid users in Vietnam, we started to smell a rat… During more […]
