Tough Talk from Those Who Hide
Summary: Brian Krebs reports that members of crutop.nu, an 8,000-member Russian-language forum for high-risk webmasters, celebrated the end of his Washington Post Security Fix blog and discussed how he should be shot and how to bury his new site's search rankings. He also notes that F-Secure intercepted malware referencing domains insulting him, and that a forum member disputed Krebs's characterization of the site and questioned his sourcing.
Key Takeaway: The thread ties back to Krebs's earlier investigation linking Crutop and payment processor Chronopay to a single individual, Pavel Vrublevsky, and forum members cited losses of hundreds of dollars when 3FN was shut down - a reminder that published research into criminal payment infrastructure draws a direct, personal response.
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