KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over Fake Radaris CEO

KrebsOnSecurity investigates the data broker Radaris, uncovering evidence that the company used a fabricated executive (“Gary Norden”), while linking the operation and its network of people-search and related sites to Massachusetts-based brothers Dmitry (“Dan”) and Igor (“Gary”) Lubarsky via domain registrations, infrastructure overlaps, patents, resumes, and corporate records. The report details legal threats by the brothers’ attorney—who also admitted the fake CEO identity—Radaris’s shifting corporate entities across jurisdictions (Cyprus, Marshall Islands), investor claims via Difive, and numerous connected domains (e.g., radaris.com, humanbook.com, comfi.com, trustoria.com). It highlights opaque ownership, investor misrepresentation, and privacy-harming data brokerage practices rather than a technical cyber incident.