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18 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Confirming that Parler is now hosted by DDOS-Guard which is in turn owned by "Cognitive Cloud LP" which is owned by 2 Russian nationals. DDOS-Guard also hosts websites for Hamas. krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/hamas-…
The Guardian did a story on DDOS-Guard and interviewed one of the owners. Another customer of theirs is the Russian government theguardian.com/technology/202…
DDOS-Guard's contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense was signed in 2016 and is worth 3.6 million rubles synapsenet.ru/searchorganiza…
Total revenue for DDOS-Guard in 2018 was 73.4 million rubles, indicating that the Russian government contract is approximately 5% of their business.
.@VickerySec first noted a Russian connection.
The only other websites on Parler's new IP address are "twitterfornazis[.]com" and "twitterfornazis[.]net"
.@Microsoft is still providing email support for Parler
One of the co-founders of DDOS-Guard also runs a business that advertises, "help to register or buy ready-made offshore companies"

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