President Donald Trump has appointed Richard Grenell as interim executive director for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

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The 115-year-old organization known as the Boy Scouts of America has officially changed its name to be more "gender neutral."

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has brought in an Illinois consulting firm headed by a far-left politician who took part in a George Soros-funded mayors' program, appointed his city's first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city's land was stolen from Native Americans by "white colonizers" to help the post-fire recovery process.

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The leftist Labour Party government is reportedly considering talks with Caribbean nations on the issue of reparations for the British Empire's role in the slave trade.

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Several big companies have reportedly nixed or softened their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) language as President Donald Trump wages war on such initiatives.

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Republican lawmakers in Virginia called on the Virginia High School League (VHSL) to protect women's sports, after VHSL announced that it would continue to allow biological males who identify as transgender to play in women's sports.

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The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized dozens of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan. The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “The Manipulaters,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI said the main clientele are organized crime groups that try to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party.

On January 29, the FBI and the Dutch national police seized the technical infrastructure for a cybercrime service marketed under the brands Heartsender, Fudpage and Fudtools (and many other “fud” variations). The “fud” bit stands for “Fully Un-Detectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances.

The Dutch authorities said 39 servers and domains abroad were seized, and that the servers contained millions of records from victims worldwide — including at least 100,000 records pertaining to Dutch citizens.

A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice refers to the cybercrime group as Saim Raza, after a pseudonym The Manipulaters communally used to promote their spam, malware and phishing services on social media.

“The Saim Raza-run websites operated as marketplaces that advertised and facilitated the sale of tools such as phishing kits, scam pages and email extractors often used to build and maintain fraud operations,” the DOJ explained.

The core Manipulaters product is Heartsender, a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365, Yahoo, AOL, Intuit, iCloud and ID.me, to name a few.

The government says transnational organized crime groups that purchased these services primarily used them to run business email compromise (BEC) schemes, wherein the cybercrime actors tricked victim companies into making payments to a third party.

“Those payments would instead be redirected to a financial account the perpetrators controlled, resulting in significant losses to victims,” the DOJ wrote. “These tools were also used to acquire victim user credentials and utilize those credentials to further these fraudulent schemes. The seizure of these domains is intended to disrupt the ongoing activity of these groups and stop the proliferation of these tools within the cybercriminal community.”

KrebsOnSecurity first wrote about The Manipulaters in May 2015, mainly because their ads at the time were blanketing a number of popular cybercrime forums, and because they were fairly open and brazen about what they were doing — even who they were in real life.

We caught up with The Manipulaters again in 2021, with a story that found the core employees had started a web coding company in Lahore called WeCodeSolutions — presumably as a way to account for their considerable Heartsender income. That piece examined how WeCodeSolutions employees had all doxed themselves on Facebook by posting pictures from company parties each year featuring a large cake with the words FudCo written in icing.

A follow-up story last year about The Manipulaters prompted messages from various WeCodeSolutions employees who pleaded with this publication to remove stories about them. The Saim Raza identity told KrebsOnSecurity they were recently released from jail after being arrested and charged by local police, although they declined to elaborate on the charges.

The Manipulaters never seemed to care much about protecting their own identities, so it’s not surprising that they were unable or unwilling to protect their own customers. In an analysis released last year, DomainTools.com found the web-hosted version of Heartsender leaked an extraordinary amount of user information to unauthenticated users, including customer credentials and email records from Heartsender employees.

DomainTools also uncovered evidence that the computers used by The Manipulaters were all infected with the same password-stealing malware, and that vast numbers of credentials were stolen from the group and sold online.

“Ironically, the Manipulaters may create more short-term risk to their own customers than law enforcement,” DomainTools wrote. “The data table ‘User Feedbacks’ (sic) exposes what appear to be customer authentication tokens, user identifiers, and even a customer support request that exposes root-level SMTP credentials–all visible by an unauthenticated user on a Manipulaters-controlled domain.”

Police in The Netherlands said the investigation into the owners and customers of the service is ongoing.

“The Cybercrime Team is on the trail of a number of buyers of the tools,” the Dutch national police said. “Presumably, these buyers also include Dutch nationals. The investigation into the makers and buyers of this phishing software has not yet been completed with the seizure of the servers and domains.”

U.S. authorities this week also joined law enforcement in Australia, France, Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain in seizing a number of domains for several long-running cybercrime forums and services, including Cracked and Nulled. According to a statement from the European police agency Europol, the two communities attracted more than 10 million users in total.

Other domains seized as part of “Operation Talent” included Sellix, an e-commerce platform that was frequently used by cybercrime forum members to buy and sell illicit goods and services.

British star Jacqueline Bisset has slammed the #MeToo hysteria of recent years, saying women need to watch how they dress and are equally responsible as men for preventing sexual harassment.

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Ahead of the premiere of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on streaming service Disney+, the show's star expressed relief that Disney did not make the series "annoying and woke."

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Every single candidate running to chair the Democratic National Committee (DNC) blamed former Vice President Kamala Harris's loss to President Donald Trump on "racism and misogyny."

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Internal memos obtained by ABC News reveal that employees from multiple federal agencies were told to remove pronouns from email signatures.

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Police in Quetta, Pakistan, arrested a man this week who reportedly confessed to killing his daughter because he did not approve of her publishing videos on the Chinese social media application TikTok.

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Members of His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tax collecting agency are reportedly being given one-fifth of their time at work off to focus on promoting leftist gender ideology.

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A "committee" widely cited in the media as opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services turns out to be a Bill Gates-backed "Astroturf" organization that accepts fake signatories.

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Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, currently favored to be the next prime minister, expressed support for President Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing only two legal human sexes on Wednesday.

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Costco is apparently digging its heels in when it comes to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies as other companies are backing away from such initiatives.

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Karla Sofía Gascón -- the transgender star of Netflix's narco-musical "Emilia Perez" -- has earned an Academy Award nomination for lead actress, making Gascón the first openly trans actor ever to receive an Oscar nomination.

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President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech on Monday unequivocally rejected the gender insanity pushed by the Biden administration over the past four years.

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A group of leftist protesters showed up in Washington, DC, on Monday, bringing with them a grim device for their demonstration as President Donald Trump was sworn in a second time.

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The move by an agency within the Department of Homeland Security was part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to strengthen oversight and set clear guidelines for handling intelligence.