> the company’s most lucrative scam business: Hundreds of sites peddling fake college degrees and diplomas. People who purchased fake certifications were subsequently blackmailed by Axact employees posing as government officials.. “Axact took money from at least 215,000 people in 197 countries — one-third of them from the United States.. earning the company at least $89 million”.. a Pakistan district judge acquitted 24 Axact officials at trial due to ‘not enough evidence’ and then later admitted he had accepted a bribe (of $35,209) from Axact

> KrebsOnSecurity reviewed the Google Ad Transparency links for nearly 500 different websites tied to this network of ghostwriting, logo, app and web development businesses. Those website names were then fed into spyfu.com, a competitive intelligence company that tracks the reach and performance of advertising keywords. Spyfu estimates that between April 2023 and April 2025, those websites spent more than $10 million on Google ads.

An interesting time to publish this, but no doubt Krebs was working on it before the India attack.

When I saw Krebs getting into international warfare politics, I thought he was out of his element, but doubtless he is pulling some relevant strings from the cyber aspect.

I'd be interested in seeing if he can get in on something close to the actual war like the NSO whatsapp exploits. So far Krebs has brought a lot of attention to scammers. But at any point he might make the jump and link cyber to actual attacks on life.