Some of the Web’s sketchiest sites share an address in Iceland


A building that houses the Icelandic Phallological Museum and an H&M in Reykjavik, Iceland. The building has become the virtual home to some of the world’s worst perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware, disinformation, and other wrongdoing. — The New York Times

REYKJAVIK, Iceland: The modern office building near the harbour in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which displays 320 specimens of mammal phalluses.

To those who track cyber mischief, however, the building also has a reputation as a virtual offshore haven for some of the world’s worst perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware, disinformation, fraud and other wrongdoing.

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