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Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

January 30, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acb group, amazon aws, anjie cdn, crowell & moring llp, fangneng cdn, funnull, infrastructure laundering, Microsoft Azure, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netscout, noname057(16), polyfill, richard hummel, silent push, suncity group, Time to Patch, u.s. department of commerce, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:10:08 +0000

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit — a sprawling network tied to Chinese organized crime gangs and aptly named “Funnull” — highlights a persistent whac-a-mole problem facing cloud services.

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Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

September 1, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, coalition for online accountability, dean marks, godaddy, interisle consulting group, national telecommunications and information administration, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of commerce, Web Fraud 2.0

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.