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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
Almost 500 seized domains under the control of the US Marshals Service, a federal law enforcement agency in the United States, have been moved away from the typical parking page. These domains were shut down almost two years ago and were with the Chine...
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December 20, 2020 DomainGang
AliYun, Domain Crime, escorts domains, Seized domains, US Marshals Service
Spam from cheap domain registrations provided via agreements between registrars and registries is spreading like the Coronavirus. Dozens of disposable domains are registered for a couple of dollars a pop, sending out massive amounts of unsolicited emai...
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December 16, 2020 DomainGang
.co spam, .cyou spam, .monster spam, Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spam, Namecheap
TGIF and welcome to another round of relentless spam, courtesy of NameCheap as the domain registrar, and Cloudflare as the DNS proxy provider. This duo really enhances serial spammers’ ability to hide and send out spam from cheap, disposable doma...
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December 11, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spam, Namecheap, serial spammers, Spam, Spammers
The registrant of the domain igroutka.net lost access to his asset on July 23, 2020 – the domain was transferred to Namecheap. Igroutka.net is a busy web site with thousands of daily visitors, primarily from Russia, looking for free online games:...
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December 4, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, Igroutka.net, Namecheap, oldmerin.net, onlajnigry.net, orgtech.info, stolen domains
Serial domain spammers love NameCheap and its combination of inaction to reports of abuse and bulk priced deals. Right now, NameCheap offers $4.88 registrations for .Asia domains, along with $1.28 for .Cloud domains. What a great combo for the phucksti...
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December 2, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, Namecheap, Spammers
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a list of what it refers to as “spoofed FBI domains” that are posing cyber and disinformation risks. Says the FBI announcement: Spoofed domains and email accounts are leveraged by forei...
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November 23, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Crime
GoDaddy employees were targeted with a social engineered, phishing campaign, in crypto-motivated attacks last week, leading them to give access to the domain Liquid.com and its account. This latest campaign appears to have taken place around November 1...
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November 21, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Crime, KrebsOnSecurity, Liquid.com
The FTC filed a complaint against the operators of 25 domains that claimed to sell Lysol and Clorox products. A federal court in Ohio issued a temporary restraining order against 25 counterfeit websites that have been playing on consumers’ Covide...
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November 16, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Crime, fake clorox, fake lysol