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  • Jul 3, 2025, 4:14 PM

    New, from me:

    "In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused continues to openly operate accounts at a slew of American tech companies, including Facebook, Github, PayPal and Twitter/X."

    tl;dr: The tech industry is all over the place in terms of how or whether they will take down accounts tied to sanctioned individuals. For example, GitHub has a policy of locking but preserving accounts tied to sanctioned individuals, but there is very little left to indicate that the code in question was produced by a sanctioned person and maybe shouldn't be forked or used in production.

    krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/bi

    A screenshot of the 17-year-old LinkedIn account for Liu "Steve" Lizhi, a 40 y/o Chinese national sanctioned in May by the US Treasury for facilitating a majority of financial scam websites reported to the FBI. LinkedIn deleted the account in the past 24h, in response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity. Steve can be seen in his profile photo holding a mug at a dining table, and the background image behind him shows five different-skinned fists joining above multiple laptops.
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