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After major online service providers cut ties with Parler following last week’s Capitol riots, the controversial social network has transferred its domain to Epik, a domain registrar and web hosting service known to host far-right platforms.

Parler, which bills itself as an online haven for free speech, is popular with conservatives, far-right groups and conspiracy theorists due to its lack of content moderation. Following the storming of the Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, Parler was widely criticized as a breeding ground for unfiltered hate speech and dangerous rhetoric. The Capitol attack, which left five dead, is believed to have been planned on the platform.

On Sunday, Amazon Web Services suspended Parler’s web hosting account—effectively deactivating…

A handful of Big Tech companies moved to take down social media platform Parler over the weekend, but it appears to have found a new company to help try to keep its website running.

On Monday, Parler registered its domain and server to be hosted by Epik, an internet webhosting company known for working with right-leaning websites. Gab, another social media platform popular with conservatives, also uses Epik. A web domain search shows that Parler is now registered with Epik.

Epik put out a statement on Monday claiming it had no discussion of providing future services to Parler. Epik did acknowledge, however, that Parler was “working on satisfying the requested terms placed upon them.”

Epik also defended Parler and said that it was being…

DALLAS, Sept. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the leader in cloud security, today released research that states organizations’ on-premise and cloud-based servers are compromised, abused and rented out as part of a sophisticated criminal monetization lifecycle.

The findings come from the second of a three-part report series looking at how the underground hosting market operates. The findings show that cryptocurrency mining activity should be the indicator for IT security teams to be on high alert.

While cryptomining may not cause disruption or financial losses on its own, mining software is usually deployed to monetize compromised servers that are sitting idle while criminals plot larger money-making schemes. These include exfiltrating…