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>30 N Gould St STE E,Sheridan, Wyoming82801, US

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/30-n-gould-st-sheridan-wy-scams-exposed/

From:

https://archive.ph/RBCY4

WASHINGTON — Digital sabotage had knocked a Somalian news website and email accounts offline in August.

"I can still feel the frustration," reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin told Reuters. "Our link to the outside world, to the international media, is our website."

It was only after getting help from Qurium, a Swedish nonprofit that does digital defense work for news organizations and nonprofits, that Mumin was able to get his site back on its feet.

When Qurium investigated, it eventually traced a source of the outage to a surprising place: Wyoming.

Although Qurium said it wasn't able to get to a lock on who pulled the trigger on the cyberattack, it did discover that the sabotage was carried out with the help of a limited liability company based out of the vast western state.

Reuters has found it was one of at least three instances in the past four months in which digital defenders have implicated Wyoming LLCs in high-profile hacking activity. Interviews with half a dozen tech and compliance experts and hacking victims like Mumin suggest that the state once known as the rugged refuge for 19th-century bandits is now catering to 21st-century outlaws.

"It's the virtual Wild, Wild West," said Sarah Beth Felix, who runs Palmera Consulting, an anti-money laundering advisory firm. She said the state made registering anonymous shell companies so easy that foreign crooks "don't have to be physically in Wyoming to hide out in Wyoming."

Joe Rubino, the general counsel for the Wyoming Secretary of State's Office, which is responsible for registering the state's business entities, said his colleagues were taking the information flagged by Reuters "for further review and investigation."

He added that Wyoming's Secretary of State, Chuck Gray, supports the idea of new laws "to prevent abuses of Wyoming's corporate filing system by foreign entities" but that the state legislature had yet to take the matter up.

Wyoming isn't alone in allowing anonymous shell companies — Delaware and Nevada have similar offerings — but Qurium said hackers particularly favored Wyoming LLCs because they were advertised as cost-effective and user-friendly.

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>>24351867

Iran and Russia in play at this address

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Experts say a single shell company can serve as the springboard for widespread abuse.

In 2017 a pair of cybersecurity researchers traced waves of digital break-ins and spam targeting a host of organizations to an online proxy service run by Russian IT entrepreneur Ilia Trusov.

Despite the public exposure — and a subsequent report by Qurium also tying him to denial of service operations — Trusov registered two Wyoming LLCs, Security Servers and Traffictransitsolution, in 2019.

In video calls with Reuters, Trusov said the allegations were unfair. He said he had no tolerance for cybercrime and often worked with police agencies to fight it. He flashed his passport and U.S. and European visas as proof that he wasn't trying to mask his identity and had never been in trouble with the law.

https://archive.ph/RBCY4

>>24352192 (me)

In August of this year, the anti-ransomware firm Halcyon accused an Iran-linked internet company called Cloudzy of providing services to "a rogue's gallery" of digital spies and cybercriminals, in part through Sheridan-based RouterHosting LLC.

Cloudzy chief executive Hannan Nozari denied turning a blind eye to malicious activity, which he said was "a serious problem all of us face." He told Reuters he was based in Dubai and registered RouterHosting under the mistaken assumption that he needed it to buy internet infrastructure in North America. He said he had recently enhanced his service's security and had the Wyoming company dissolved.