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Veri-Site
Overview
and Use
Cases
Prepared for:
CWAG
Rise of “Rogue” Websites
Increasingly, criminal enterprises – via “rogue” websites – are manipulating unwitting
businesses in order to drive ill-gotten financial gain.
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“Rogue” Websites
Legitimate Businesses
Intellectual Property
(IP) Piracy
Advertisers, Agencies,
& Ad Networks
Counterfeit
Goods
Intellectual Property
(IP) Holders
Fake
Pharmacies
Payment
Processors
Child
Pornography
Banks & Other
Financial Institutions
Cybercrime
& Fraud
Internet Service
Providers (ISPs)
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Terrorism
& Related
Other Businesses
Operating Online
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Criminal Proceeds
Ad Revenue
Payment for goods and
services
Malware, cybercrime
Rise of “Rogue” Websites
How are US citizens negatively impacted?
• Shoppers don’t get what they ordered:
– Amazon shoppers 2012 – 7% counterfeit goods per International Chamber of Commerce
– Fake pharmaceuticals and consumer health risk
• Malware and Cybercrime:
– Pirate sites 2010 – 12% distributing malware per Symantec
• Jobs
– Intellectual Property Theft regarded as a strategic risk (US White House)
– NPD reports that only 37 % of music acquired by U.S. consumers in 2009 was paid for
• Exposure to Pornography including Child Pornography
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Increasing Awareness
Voluntary initiatives are not a panacea, and they are not appropriate to
address all forms of piracy,” said the MPAA. “Some voluntary initiatives work
well; some have more modest success; and some are simply not effective.”
•United Sates losses -$225Billion to Counterfeit Goods - $225 Billion http://www.havocscope.com/losses-to-counterfeit-goods-by-country/
•As report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce stated that “counterfeiting and piracy cost the
U.S. economy between $200 billion and $250 billion per year and a total of 750,000 American
jobs.
•According to a study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 74
percent of consumers surveyed in a study stated that they first found a website offering
pirated materials through a search engine.
•58 percent of searches with keywords such as the movie’s title or names of television
shows had links to online piracy sites, according to the report.
•82 percent of search queries that brought a user to a website offering pirated materials
was through Google search. This number is in direct contrast with a report released by
Google last week. Google claims that just 16 percent of internet users find online piracy
sites through a search engine.
Source: Eriq Gardner, “Why Hollywood Is Suddenly Marveling Over Piracy Studies,” Hollywood
Reporter, September 18, 2013.
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Confidential
Fake Pharma
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Dashboard View
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Dashboard View
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Child
Pornography
Maksym Shynkarenko
Name: Maksym Shynkarenko
Country: Ukraine
Category: OBS (Child Pornography)
Sites: Operated a network of at least 9 sites
Primary Activity: Pornography specifically Child
Pornography
Ad Supported?: Yes
Associated website
ciampics.com
cpcity2007.com
dirtynymphet.com
hualama.com
illegal.cp
pedoheaven.com
realchildporno.com
thesickchildroom.com
worldfamouschildpornvideo.com
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Summary
Maksym Shynkarenko has been noted due to
allegations of Intellectual Property Infringement. He
is a Ukrainian citizen, born in 1979. He was charged
with one count of conspiracy to transport and ship
child pornography; 16 counts of transportation and
shipment of child pornography; one count of
conspiracy to advertise child pornography; 12 counts
of advertising child pornography; and one count each
of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and
money laundering. He founded and operated a
Ukraine-based child pornography website Illegal.CP
and operated a network of websites with names
The Sick Child Room, Hottest Childporn Garden,
and Pedo Heaven, from which he allegedly made
hundreds of thousands of dollars effectively selling
tickets to the exploitation of children. He was arrested
in January 2009 pursuant to the indictment after HSI
tracked him to Thailand where he had traveled for a
vacation. On 11 June 2012, he also faced a fine of up
to $250,000 on each of those counts and carried a
statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison
and a $500,000 fine for the money laundering
conspiracy count.
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Confidential
Payment Provider Analysis
• Major Payment Engines
List of Payment Engines
Paypal
Okpay
Discover
Sofort
Webmoney
Western union
Maestro Card
Gopay
Moneybookers
Micro payment
JCB Card
Mol
Diners Club International
Alipay
Paymentwall
Dotpay
Yandex money
Google wallet
Cashu
Liqpay
Visa Electron
Wallet One
Paysafecard
Easy Pay
Pagseguro
Eplatba
Ukash
Euro Card
Fana pay
Moneygram
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Ad Networks Analysis
• Major Ad Networks:
Most Frequently occurring Ads
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googleadservices.com
cpxinteractive.com
mgid.com
doubleclick.net
friendlyduck.com
adorika.com
adnxs.com
luxup.ru
bbelements.com
matomymedia.com /
xtendmedia.com
ad4game.com
zanox.com
pay-click.ru
adsmarket.com
adbrite.com
vizury.com
groovinads.com
adbroker.com
marketgid.ru
tlvmedia.com
adk2.com
infolinks.com
marketgid.com
bidvertiser.com
advmaker.net
adserverpub.com
cpmstar.com
adcash.com
banner.kiev.ua
exoclick.com
zedo.com
directadvert.ru
intextual.com
pubdirecte.com
googlesyndication.com
smowtion.com
clicksor.com
propellerads.com
Online Anti-Piracy Evolution
v1.0
(Self-regulated)
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v2.0
Veri-Site Certified™
F I L T E R (X00,000)
F I L T E R (4,000)
Pirate Sites
(Wild West)
Increasing Awareness
 July 2011 : Guidelines released for rogue website screening by ad networks
Adam Szubin, Director of OFAC, specifically addressed the growing threat of TCOs, stating that OFAC
has been quite active in announcing designations in this area. Also, William F. Wechsler, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, recently stated that criminal
networks have harnessed “new methods of doing business” that must be challenged. TCOs have
become “adroit at harnessing information technology tools, seizing the opportunities presented by the
accelerating velocity of information flows, the proliferation of online money transfer, and the general
anonymity of virtual exchange to increase the scale and scope of their activities while spreading or
reducing the risk of detection.”.
 July 2011: OFAC specifies SDN and screening guidelines
OFAC adds new designees as IP infringers; OFAC reiterates that all offline KYC requirements are also mandatory
online, despite increased difficulty.
 July 2011: US President announces anti-Transnational Organized Crime initiative
Mission of OFAC is expanded, to include IP infringement, cybercrime, etc. – thereby increasing both OFAC’s
jurisdiction and scope.
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Chief Executive Officer
daniel.peak@veri-site.com
+1.608.632.1868
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