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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

krebsonsecurity.com/2019/1...

submitted over 6 years ago by lukeSky

submitted over 6 years ago by lukeSky

  • A top executive at an organization responsible for distributing Internet addresses in Africa resigned after being accused of secretly selling IP addresses worth millions of dollars to online marketers.
  • The scarcity of available IP addresses has turned them into a valuable commodity, leading to unauthorized sales and exploitation by spammers and scammers.
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