appreciate the link!

fwiw it was formerly owned by Elizabeth Wurtzel

It's possible but really no clue - got it at an estate sale from another author

cheers thanks very much!! 🖖

Congrats! Very well deserved. 🖖🏻

Our team looks forward to providing updates on the FUNNULL CDN and the owner over the coming weeks and months. This network isn’t done and much stronger efforts need to be taken in the U.S. by a wide range of companies to deal w/ this ongoing persistent threat out of China. 🖖

I’ve got my own personal non-lawyer opinions (seems quite risky to host accounts for the owner of the largest CDN hosting scams targeting Americans), but I gotta assume that this is complex and there is currently a grey area that the U.S. Treasury needs to clarify.

It seems clear that serious enterprise lawyers from major tech companies may not agree on what U.S. Treasury sanctions require them to do when an individual is sanctioned who has accounts on their service.

Our research confirmed Lizhi still has active accounts on services including:
Twitter
GitHub
LinkedIn
Facebook
Google Code / Google Groups
Medium
PayPal
WordPress
HuggingFace
Gravatar / WordPress
Vercel
Deviant Art / Wix
Flickr / SmugMug
About Me / Vendasta
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Krebs put it nicely in his piece, “However, as Mr. Lizhi’s case makes clear, just because someone is sanctioned doesn’t necessarily mean big tech companies are going to suspend their online accounts.”

Do U.S. Treasury sanctions really have no teeth to require companies to ban accounts?

In this publishing process, we learned that different enterprise companies currently have different interpretations of what U.S. Treasury Sanctions / SDN processes require.

FUNNULL hosted websites have caused over $200 million in losses to U.S. victims, with an average loss of $150,000 per individual.

And yet the FUNNULL admin, who was also directly sanctioned, still has dozens of accounts on various Western enterprise services. So what gives?

FUNNULL CDN and the admin Liu Lizhi (aka Steve / Steven Lizihi) were both sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in May 2025 – and in the announcement it was noted that “Funnull is linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI.”

Read @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy report @ "Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions" @ krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/big-...

We found tons of interesting details including some anti-American and anti-Japanese statements on his personal blog.

Brian Krebs was also able to cover the research and helped to engage the enterprise organizations who are still hosting his accounts.

Our SP piece can be viewed @ "Numerous Western Companies May Still Need to Ban FUNNULL Admin Accounts to Comply with U.S. Treasury Sanctions" @ www.silentpush.com/blog/funnull...

More on Funnull in this Silent Push report from January: www.silentpush.com/blog/infrast...

These are also Funnull IPs and domains: bsky.app/profile/camp...