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Some unfortunate owners of the highly valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs lost their assets yesterday. The cybercriminals took advantage of a security lapse at the BAYC Instagram page, substituting the official link with one they controlled. Using the d...
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April 26, 2022 DomainGang
BAYC, Domain Crime, NFT, Yuga Labs, YugaLabs.land
The high traffic domain FreeDesignResources.net was reported as stolen at GoDaddy yesterday. The domain has been a popular repository of graphic resources, with a high followship on Adobe Behance and Facebook. The brazen thief is seeking to extort $5,0...
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April 25, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, FreeDesignResources.net, stolen domains
An FBI raid has taken down a trio of domains pointing to a cybercrime nest, RaidForums. According to the report, the seizure of the RaidForums website, a popular marketplace for cybercriminals to buy and sell hacked data, brought unsealed criminal char...
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April 12, 2022 DomainGang
Cloudflare, cybercrime, Department of Justice, Diogo Santos Coelho, Domain Crime, Raid.lol, RaidForums, RaidForums.com, RF.ws
A phishing attempt targeting domain investors used the name of a law firm as the main bait. As reported by domain investor, George Kirikos, the phishing email consisted of a link to open an “encrypted file” using the Evernote platform. At t...
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March 23, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, domain fraud, domain phishing, Evernote, phishing
CISA, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, has been tracking the spreading and attacks of Conti ransomware. Along with the FBI, CISA have observed the increased use of Conti ransomware in more than 400 attacks on U.S. and internation...
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March 10, 2022 DomainGang
CISA, Conti, Conti ransomware, cybercrime, Domain Crime, Domain security
During the past few days a number of pirate IPTV-related domains began redirecting to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) website, an indication that these domains’ services were suspended by their registrars. ACE and MPA are on a...
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February 14, 2022 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, Illegal streaming services, MarkMonitor, MPA, pirate domains
An Instagram message chain about supposed “copyright infringement” takes advantage of newly registered .ORG domains to steal account passwords. The messages originate from compromised Instagram accounts that in turn message their contact li...
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February 10, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, fake copyright infringement, instagram phishers, Registrar.eu, stolen passwords
Domain investors should be aware of a current phishing campaign using the Network Solutions brand. Why is NetSol’s brand used as a bait? The oldest domain registrar maintains millions of aged, premium, or otherwise valuable domains for its client...
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January 27, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, domain phishing, Network Solutions, NetworkSolutions.CO
The classic method of stealing an “orphan” domain was apparently used in the case of SOO.com. What is an orphan domain: It’s a domain that is managed by an email address that is obsolete, particularly belonging to another domain that ...
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January 19, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime
Serial arch-spammer “Eric Jones“ is an invented name for a company that floods mailboxes and discussion threads with its unsolicited email. Hiding behind the duplicity of Cloudflare’s proxy DNS and registrar services, the “Eric ...
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January 10, 2022 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spammers, Eric Jones, Jumbo Lead Magnet, JumboLeadMagnet.com, Spam, talkwithcustomer.com, talkwithlead.com, talkwithwebvisitor.com