Hucksters.net

Hucksters.net is a fraud-tracking website that employs open-source intelligence techniques to expose the individuals behind significant email spam campaigns and online scams.

Background

The website is organized into a directory of people, brands, domain names, and other data points that can be sorted and searched.

Hucksters.net has been mentioned by multiple news outlets due to its role in exposing several QAnon conspiracy theory promoters and alt-right figures,[1] including Matt Drudge's alleged partner, an Armenian web developer who was exposed by the site for mass plagiarism of American newspapers like the New York Times to help Drudge's news aggregator avoid paywalls.[2] In 2022, the site also helped to expose the Russian hackers who were leveraging a severe backdoor vulnerability in VMWare.[3]

Hucksters.net research exposing an American doctor who was harming patients based on their political beliefs was also allegedly plagiarized by Tucker Carlson Tonight and the show's executive producer, Gregg Re, in the weeks leading up to the show being canceled by Fox News, although Fox News later issued a correction.[4]

References
  1. Quinn, Ryan. "Pressure on Controversial Online Econ Forum Continues". Inside Higher Ed.
  2. Silverman, Craig (May 27, 2020). "The Drudge Report Has Been Linking To This Armenian Guy's Site Instead Of The New York Times". BuzzFeed News.
  3. Labs, Morphisec. "VMWare Identity Manager Attack: New Backdoor Discovered". blog.morphisec.com.
  4. Wallace, Danielle (March 30, 2022). "Wake Forest medical student suggests she stuck patient twice with needle after he called out her pronoun pin". Fox News.
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