Blockchain-Hosted Extortion Portals

Tammy Harper

Threat Summit 2026 · Session recording

About this session

cry0 is shifting victim negotiation and payment portals off Tor and bulletproof VPS onto the Internet Computer Protocol, deploying logic as WebAssembly canisters across a decentralized node network. This session reconstructs the on-chain deployment, examines what the model enables — negotiation workflows, automated payment validation, resilient replication, and encrypted hosting — explains how it turns seizure into a protocol/governance problem, and provides a defender framework for tracking blockchain-hosted infrastructure.

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