REYKJAVIK, Iceland –
The modern office building near the harbor in Iceland’s capital Reykjavik is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which exhibits 320 specimens of mammalian penises.
For those who track cyber evil, 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 misconduct.
That’s because the museum’s address, Kalkofnsvegur 2, is also the registered address of Withheld for Privacy, a company that is part of a thriving and largely unregulated industry in Iceland and elsewhere that allows people who operate online domains to conceal their identities. to screen.
