Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and RCMP, seized domains for NightmareStresser, a prolific DDoS-for-hire operation linked to hundreds of thousands of attacks.

The breach links the names and photos of millions of people across North America. One expert said this is likely the largest database of facial images ever breached.

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Every hostname resolves to an IP. The new ASN/BGP explorer and watchlist put origin, neighborhood, corpus co-location, and prefix hops in DecryptAds.

This investigation reveals what data is harvested from Romanians, who ends up receiving it, and why the ads shown on platforms with conspiratorial and extremist content are among the most valuable to ...

DecryptAds maps programmatic ad-tech supply chains from public files — ads.txt, sellers.json, and related signals — so you can trace hidden flows and surface invalid supply.

It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but...

It's usually very difficult to investigate the advertising industry. A new tool called DecryptAds aims to make it much easier with a massive dataset anyone can query.

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Authorities are investigating the death of Mohamed Coulibaly who was accused of targeting multiple former NFL players with a fake e-commerce scheme.

How DecryptAds helps researchers and the public understand the programmatic advertising ecosystem — auto-investigation, publisher and ad-system profiles, geo-risk, data brokers, declaration fingerprin...

The alleged scam, organized by a 24-year-old from Philadelphia, offered NFL players ownership of bogus websites as a place to park cash from their lucrative careers.

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Gholamreza Hosseini got caught spying for the CIA in Iran. The story of how he was burned casts light on an epic U.S. intelligence failure.

How a Chinese open-source framework fuels 236,000+ scam sites across major cloud providers and bulletproof hosts, spread via social engineering.

An Indian court ruling that Google infringed the trademark rights of a bathroom fittings maker by ​allowing rivals to use its name as an ‌advertising keyword could reshape the online ads market, India...