REYKJAVIK, Iceland ¨C The modern office building near the harbor in Iceland¡¯s capital, Reykjavik, is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which displays 320 specimens of mammal penises.
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.
That¡¯s because the museum¡¯s street address, Kalkofnsvegur 2, is also the registered address for Withheld for Privacy, a company that is part of a booming and largely unregulated industry in Iceland and elsewhere that allows people who operate online domains to shield their identities.
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