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Web.com – wrong excuse

2016-12-22 Artists Against 419

Web.com and Consumer Harm This blog post will illustrate what happens when Network Solutions is made aware of serious issues on their service. Network Solutions is a leading US based registrar, a member of the Web.com Group, Inc. For any abuse issues with their service, they insist the abuse form at https://abuse.web.com/ be completed. Also for fake domain registration details. So what happens if this route is followed? The domain and the scam Let’s first consider the malicious domain hyperchems.com…

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Introducing WHOIS flaky factor

2016-06-30 Artists Against 419

AA419 has introduced a new toy for internet researchers. Background When looking up the registration details (WHOIS) for a domain, in the thin domain gTLD model, we are reliant on registrars to supply these services. Essentially the access should be freely available and meet the following specifications as per ICANN Registrars and registries [PDF, 649 KB] are obligated to provide access to WHOIS data through registration data publication services. It must be publicly available in a specific format and on…

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aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown; AFRINIC

2013-08-11 Artists Against 419

This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the AFRINIC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address

aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown; APNIC

2013-08-11 Artists Against 419

This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the APNIC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.

aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown; ARIN

2013-08-11 Artists Against 419

This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the ARIN region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.

aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown; RIPENCC

2013-08-11 Artists Against 419

This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the RIPENCC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.

aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown; LACNIC

2013-08-11 Artists Against 419

This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the LACNIC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.

aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown

2013-08-11 Artists Against 419

Over the past few days, aa419 has been under a DDoS attack once agin. Somewhere out there, there is a happy “scammer client”. We are always happy to please and note your appreciation of our services, confirming the need for aa419 to be on the net doing what we do. So when our “scammer client” hired a botnet to show his appreciation, we put steps into place. It was believed to be in the best interests of the Internet community…

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And yet another DDoS

2013-08-08 Artists Against 419

Aa419.org is experiencing yet another DDoS attack. Now here is the weird thing. When and as aa419 members encounter fraudulent websites, they get it listed and terminated, it’s nothing personal. Fraud does not belong on the net. However those that lose there instruments of fraud do get more than a bit upset and is why we see attacks against us. It just confirms the effectiveness of aa419.org However in this instance the attacker chose to highlight a listing for http://www.gline-bank.com/…

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aa419 DDoS Attack – Jun 2013

2013-06-21 Artists Against 419

Once again aa419 has managed to stir the proverbial hornet’s nest and we are under a DDoS attack. Ever since it has become fashionable for criminals to use DDoS attacks, aa419 has been a regular target of these attacks. As such we’ll simply so what we have done so many times before; go offline if we can no longer stay up and be back later. In the past we have explained why we can’t be hurt by DDoS attacks in…

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