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Domain names and brands of pharmaceutical companies are often abused by peddlers of unlicensed or fake medications. Since the onslaught of Covid-19, scammers target companies such as Moderna that produce medications to fight the virus, registering doma...
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March 25, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Pfizer, PfizerMx.com, PfizerStockrate.com, Seized domains, US law
Sky Global is a Canadian company, creators of encryption software for phones. The US federal authorities have indicted two of its top executives for allegedly providing drug traffickers with the ability to evade surveillance. Jean-Francois Eap, Sky Glo...
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March 17, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Seized domains, Sky Global
A little over a year ago, the FBI seized the domain name WeLeakInfo.com, a rogue provider of hacked credentials. At the time, WeLeakInfo claimed to provide its clients a searchable index of personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data br...
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March 15, 2021 DomainGang
brian krebs, Domain Crime, Seized domains, WeLeakInfo, wli.design
Domain names and brands of pharmaceutical companies are often abused by peddlers of unlicensed or fake medications. Since the onslaught of Covid-19, scammers target companies such as Moderna that produce medications to fight the virus, registering doma...
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March 2, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Remdesivir, RemdesivirMx.com, Seized domains, US law
GoDaddy is the biggest domain registrar in the world, with more than 80 million domain names under management. It makes sense that it’s therefore the most targeted domain registrar by cybercriminals, due to the sheer volume of domains. For domain...
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February 25, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft
The aged, premium domain name Area.com has been reported as stolen. Area.com was moved away from its registrant’s possession at Network Solutions, to BizCN in China. The same domain registrar was used in several other recent domain theft incident...
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February 18, 2021 DomainGang
area.com, Domain Crime, Network Solutions, Soylent Communications, stolen domains, Thomas E. Dell
The domain Perl.com was returned to its legitimate owners late last week, moving back to Network Solutions. Brian D. Foy, operator of Perl.com, confirmed that the domain was returned: “Network Solutions got Perl.com back. Your WHOIS records shoul...
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February 8, 2021 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, Perl.com, stolen domains
Domain theft is a crime that relies on two parameters to succeed: keeping the victim unaware of the crime and presenting the stolen assets for sale to unsuspecting buyers. In the case of domain names, domain theft affects the victim’s business an...
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February 1, 2021 DomainGang
AcneTreatment.com, Assign.com, CompareMortgage.com, Domain Crime, ExpoTravel.com, FinPlan.com, MoneyClub.com, patterns.com, Perl.com, piracy.com, SolarPlanet.com, Spear.com, stolen domains
Adam Cochran, a crypto analyst and professor, experienced an attempt to hijack his domain name, Cochran.io, by hackers seeking to gain access to his personal cryptocurrency wallets. The domain’s DNS records were temporarily changed by the perpetr...
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December 30, 2020 DomainGang
Adam Cochran, crypto, Domain Crime, ledger, Ledger leak, ledger.com, social engineering
The dropped domain name SimonTheFish.com was used to take over a group of domains linked to the email address sp@simonthefish.com in November. In what is known as the domain hijacking method of orphaned domains, the process involves registering the con...
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December 28, 2020 DomainGang
abtchem.com, bioask.com, cytolabs.com, Domain Crime, orphaned domains, simonthefish.com, stemx.com, stolen domains