Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:26:55 +0000
The top-level domain for the United States — .US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified .US domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:38:11 +0000
Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S. citizens and to those who can demonstrate that they have a physical presence in the United States.
Read moreCategories: News Tags: GoDaddy Tags: GoDaddy breach Hosting and domain name company GoDaddy says it believes a sophisticated threat actor group has been subjecting the company to a multi-year attack campaign. |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 19:12:25 +0000
Godaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy’s fix hasn’t gone far enough, and that scammers likely still have a sizable arsenal of hijacked GoDaddy domains at their disposal.
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:00:14 +0000
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| A roundup of last week’s security news from January 21 to 27, including Modlishka, Crytekk, PUPs, and the State of Malware report. Categories: Tags: 2019 State of Malware report2faALPRandroid malwareanprArs TechnicaBleeping Computercrytekkcrytekk ransomwareDark ReadingfortnightgdprGoDaddyHelp Net SecurityKrebsOnSecuritymitsubishimodlishkaphishingrecapSecurity WeekTechCrunchThe Wall Street Journalvishingvoicemail phishingvulnerabilityweek in securityweekly blog roundupyoutube |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 02:44:28 +0000
Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year — were made possible thanks to an authentication weakness at GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Perhaps more worryingly, experts warn this same weakness that let spammers hijack domains registered through GoDaddy also affects a great many other major Internet service providers, and is actively being abused to launch phishing and malware attacks which leverage dormant Web site names currently owned and controlled by some of the world’s most trusted corporate names and brands.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| Tech support scammers belonging to the Partnerstroka group are once again abusing browsers, this time with a new browlock feature to reel in more victims, in one of the biggest campaigns we’ve ever tracked. Categories: Tags: Blogger redirectsbrowlockbrowlocksbrowser lockerbrowser lockersDecoy sitesGoDaddyHTTP authenticationIndicators of compromiseIOCIOCsmalicious pop-upsmalvertisingMalwarebytes Browser ExtensionMalwarebytes Browser ExtensionsPartnerstrokarogue tech support adsstrokatech supporttech support scamsTSS |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:08:36 +0000
In 2016, KrebsOnSecurity exposed a network of phony Web sites and fake online reviews that funneled those seeking help for drug and alcohol addiction toward rehab centers that were secretly affiliated with the Church of Scientology. Not long after the story ran, that network of bogus reviews disappeared from the Web. Over the past few months, however, the same prolific purveyor of these phantom sites and reviews appears to be back at it again, enlisting the help of Internet users and paying people $25-$35 for each fake listing.
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