Melbourne domain kingpin hit with cyber death threats

A Melbourne web domain kingpin has received death threats after he blew the lid on emerging fraud campaigns.

Attackers warned Michael Gilmour that he would be killed unless he removed a series of blog articles that warned domain name buyers of a new scam sweeping the industry.

Ten days ago, a large denial of service attack from a global botnet slammed into Gilmour’s personal blog, where the articles were posted, and his business website. Both have remained under attack and offline.

Gilmour shrugged off the attacks until he noticed the death threats embedded as URLs in the attack logs — via redwolf.newsvine.com