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Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”

July 31, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, apwg, dave mitchell, digicert, digital ocean, dnsmadeeasy, eclypsium, Hostinger, infoblox, Latest Warnings, matthew bryant, sitting duck domains, steve job, Time to Patch, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:06:45 +0000

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds.

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.US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

October 31, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, black pumas, blackpumaoct33@ukr.net, godaddy, infoblox, josef bakhovsky, kristaps ronka, leila puma, malicious link shortener, namecheap, namesilo, national telecommunications and information administration, prolific puma, Web Fraud 2.0

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.