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Manageyum twitter5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Treasury and State departments as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organization. This facilities map published by DDoS-Guard suggests the company’s network actually has at least two points of presence in the United States. In a press release issued in late 2019, DDoS-Guard said its services rely in part on a traffic-scrubbing facility in Los Angeles owned by CoreSite, a real estate investment trust which invests in “carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation and peering services.” 2020 story, DDoS-Guard issued a statement saying, “We observe network neutrality and are convinced that any activity not prohibited by law in our country has the right to exist.”īut experts say DDoS-Guard’s business arrangement with a Denver-based publicly traded data center firm could create legal headaches for the latter thanks to the Russian company’s support of Hamas. Replying to requests for comment from a CBSNews reporter following up on my Oct. DDoS-Guard is now VanwaTech’s sole connection to the larger Internet.Ī review of the several thousand websites hosted by DDoS-Guard is revelatory, as it includes a vast number of phishing sites and domains tied to cybercrime services or forums online. Following a brief disconnection, the sites came back online with the help of DDoS-Guard, an Internet company based in Russia. Previous appeals to VanwaTech to disconnect these sites have fallen on deaf ears, as the company’s owner Nick Lim reportedly has been working with 8kun’s administrators to keep the sites online in the name of protecting free speech.Īfter that story, CNServers and a U.K.-based hosting firm called SpartanHost both cut ties with VanwaTech. Last year’s story examined how a phone call to Oregon-based CNServers was all it took to briefly sideline multiple websites related to 8chan/8kun - a controversial online image board linked to several mass shootings - and QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory which holds that a cabal of Satanic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against President Donald Trump.Ī large number of 8kun and QAnon-related sites (see map above) are connected to the Web via a single Internet provider in Vancouver, Wash. Many of the IP address ranges in in this map of QAnon and 8Chan-related sites - are assigned to VanwaTech. ![]()
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