15 November 2023
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 2022.
In such a thriving market where there is huge money to be made, illegal practices like money laundry, fraud and online scams are common.
Follow Qurium’s investigation of how a Chinese clone of a Philippine newspaper lead us into the world of Chinese gambling, an industry that is strictly forbidden in China.
When investigating the cloned Philippine website we stumbled upon an actor that is hosting two full /24 networks (roughly 500 IP addresses) of cloned websites of media outlets, universities and private businesses, that are being abused to promote a network of Chinese gambling services.
Qurium’s report: Hundreds of sites cloned to promote a Chinese gambling network
MindaNews’ report: Chinese network clones hundreds of websites, including MindaNews – Qurium Media
Contacts
Digital forensics: Tord Lundström <t@virtualroad.org> Technical Director
Media: Clara Zid <info@virtualroad.org> Media and Outreach Manager