“Fud Co” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reports that a Pakistani group calling itself The Manipulaters, which has sold spam and phishing tools under the cybercriminal identity "Saim Raza" for roughly a decade, is tied through shared phone numbers, WHOIS records and hosting to a Lahore software firm called We Code Solutions. The firm's website has shared a server with domains including saimraza[.]tools, fud[.]tools and heartsender[.]net, and employees have posted Facebook photos of "Fud Co" anniversary cakes, while the group's lapsed manipulaters[.]com domain was picked up in 2019 by intelligence firm Scylla Intel.
Why it matters: Scylla Intel's Sasha Angus said the group's own sloppiness produced several thousand potential exhibits and that researchers briefed U.S. prosecutors in 2019, yet the operation kept selling phishing templates for Office365 and Dropbox and tools like HeartSender for years - a reminder that takedown depends less on identifying the actors than on someone absorbing the volume of evidence.
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