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July 20, 2026 Briefs · DNS & Routing

Control the Name, Control the Path: What Seizing 1,000 World Cup Domains Really Did

The DOJ took more than 1,000 World Cup streaming domains across three waves, thirteen times the Qatar 2022 total. That is not the same as seizing a thousand servers. A layer-by-layer read of DNS against BGP, sinkholing, registry jurisdiction and where a service can actually be switched off.

1,000+ namesseized across 3 waves

13× jumpvs 78 domains at Qatar 2022

Name ≠ servernaming is not routing

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June 25, 2026Briefs · Financial Infra

Iran's Banks Went Down Twice in 9 Days. One System Links Them All.

Two cyber incidents nine days apart knocked out card services at Bank Melli, Bank Saderat and Bank Tejarat. The public routing table shows a single shared payment layer beneath them, operated by the sanctioned Informatics Services Corporation, that turns one fault into correlated failure.

2 outages in 9 days · 1 shared hinge (ISC) · 256-address clearing fabric

June 18, 2026Briefs · Threat Intel

INTERPOL's First MENA Cybercrime Operation Found a Phishing Service That Ran for a Decade While the Feeds Showed Nothing

Operation Ramz arrested 201 people across 13 countries and dismantled SniperDz, a phishing-as-a-service platform that ran for nearly ten years. The region holds 0.85% of global autonomous systems but contributes 0.17% of tracked threat indicators.

201 arrests · ~10-year PhaaS · 5× underrepresented in threat signal

June 16, 2026Intelligence · Sanctions

The Ten-Day Clone: How Aeza Reappeared as Hypercore While the Routing Table Kept Score

On July 1, 2025, OFAC sanctioned Aeza Group and its two autonomous systems. Two days later a UK company called Hypercore LTD was incorporated, and within the same July window thirteen of fourteen visible prefixes migrated to a new ASN under the new corporate name.

2 days · from designation to replacement company · 119-day enforcement gap

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