Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: 'It's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game'
interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.
"Once we poked at it, we realized, it's certainly not just them," Silent Push CEO Ken Bagnall told The Register. "We discovered many, many more branches of crime and money laundering, and that initial thing turned into 1.4 million live hosting sites at any one time. It's a huge crime organization."
Silent Push, a cybersecurity takedown firm that works with international law enforcement agencies to take down cybercrime groups, first started tracking this crime organization in 2021.
It would eventually turn out to be Funnull, a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of financial scams.
