Phishing Gang is Audacious Manipulator
Summary: A phishing gang calling itself the Manipulaters Team advertises itself as a "brand research & development" institute while registering some 329 phishing domains to admin@manipulaters[dot]com, targeting Apple's iCloud and banks in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The group is listed as the occupant of an entire Class C address range from 167.160.46.0 to 167.160.46.255, hosts most of its phishing pages on that space, and uses DNS settings from a scammer-friendly service called FreshSpamTools[dot]eu.
Bottom line: A single gang controls a full /24 of hosting address space and hundreds of registered domains, so blocking individual phishing URLs leaves the rest of that infrastructure live; the group also charges a $15 membership fee and requires a driver's license or utility bill, meaning it is recruiting operators rather than working alone.
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