14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Gilmour, a leader of the Melbourne web domain market, began receiving death threats from cybercriminals after he started exposing their methods of scamming people who invest in online advertising.
SC Magazine informs us that ten days ago Gilmore's blog, containing the fraud methods used, was hit by a series of DoS attacks. He responded to them and managed to restore it, along side with the business website that was also taken down by the hackers.
If he first considered these attacks to be a sign that he was making a point with his posts, he then realized that things were getting serious after receiving death threats encoded in the web addresses of the hits.
"I have family, I have children, and employees that need to be protected," Gilmour said after the URL http://lastwarning-shutdown-yourblog-or-die-withyourparklogic.com was embedded into the last hacking activity.
The final part of the message, about Park Logic, is actually referring to Gilmour's domain parking company, also targeted in the attempts to shut him up.
Federal law enforcement got involved in the matter after the word “death” came into the equation, the cybercriminals being traced to servers that controlled computers from Ukraine, China and India, used to launch the operations.
American intelligence bodies also started investigating, as some of the domain parking servers were physically based in the United States.
So what did he exactly post on his blog to make the cybercriminals so angry?
He revealed that the scam artists were purchasing legitimate parking accounts in order to commit fraud on the advertising market. They would then create fake traffic, using botnets, for which the advertisers would pay good money. After seeing their bank accounts filled, they would run off with the fraudulently earned amounts.
The man is upset because “Governments have done nothing over the last 10 years to this clear and present danger, save for some posturing.”
He believes that these sorts of actions wouldn't occur so often if state officials would get more involved in the matter, making regulations that would somehow help companies in these difficult situations.