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US shuts down phisherfolk’s $14.6M password-hoarding platform

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2025-12-24

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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The U.S. Justice Department seized web3adspanels.org, a platform used by criminals to support SEO-poisoning and social-engineering campaigns that stole banking credentials and enabled account takeovers; prosecutors tied $28M in attempted illicit transfers (with $14.6M in estimated actual losses) to the site, and the FBI IC3 has received thousands of related complaints reporting large cumulative losses.

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