CYBERSPACE – A new variant of the Citadel malware designed to steal login credentials from clients of payment platform Payza and its subsidiary AlertPay has been discovered “in the wild.” Both platforms are employed by adult affiliate programs, websites and traffic networks. In a...

By Peter Berton LOS ANGELES – Adult performer Chanel Preston has won numerous industry awards over the past three years … but can she take her success to the bank?

MONTREAL – Australian dollars have joined the list of currency options at alternative payment network Paxum. The e-wallet platform also enables peer-to-peer, wire and check money transfers in U.S. and Canadian dollars, euros and British pounds. “We are pleased to strengthen our...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – One of two men sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome 2007 slaying of gay porn producer Bryan Kocis has asked for a new trial on the grounds his former lover committed the crime. Harlow Cuadra, 31, is serving a life sentence in the State Correctional...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Affiliate program Pimproll has secured the URL Porn.xxx, a bookend to the company’s existing property Porn.com. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Pimproll reportedly paid about $9.5 million to acquire Porn.com in mid-2007. The...

VENICE, Calif. – Barely four months after launching her first membership website, exotic performer Mitsuko Doll has revamped the entire property, adding more streaming videos, photos and other components. The new-and-improved MitsukoDoll.com was designed to give fans more of what...

SAN FRANCISCO – With Bree Olson’s inaugural year as the face of new-age phone-sex service Verified Call coming to a close, the company has begun searching for a new spokesmodel. According to President Kurt Vogner, the competition is wide open. The next spokesmodel could be...

LOS ANGELES – Affiliates who push traffic to HollyRandall.com must change their linking codes immediately if they wish to be paid for sales, according to a statement distributed over the weekend by the site’s new manager, MetArt. MetArt acquired the photographer’s eponymous site...

PITTSBURGH – Three months after the company debuted, SEOForAdult has been acquired by a startup. Founder Wright Williams announced the deal over the weekend, naming ElevenSEO as the new owner. According to Williams, the proprietary back-linking engine he created was the impetus...

LOS ANGELES – Mansion Productions has integrated a Bitcoin payment solution with its MPA3 V5 affiliate-management and -tracking software. The solution provider, BitPay, operates a global peer-to-peer network that automates payment processing for Bitcoin digital currency. The...