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Stolen domains are often listed for sale on domain auction platforms, and such attempts might be difficult to thwart. Automated ownership validation isn’t a surefire process, simply because having control of a domain asset doesn’t necessari...
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May 15, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Sedo stolen domains policy, stolen domains
Sedo, a DomainGang sponsor, sent us an update on the termination of the auction for WBS.com – a domain that has been reported as stolen by its owner. Sedo’s representative confirmed that the legitimate owner initiated the auction cancellati...
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May 14, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, LLL .com domains, sedo auctions, WBS.com, WBS.com stolen, WBS.com stolen domain
The domain name WBS.com has been reported as stolen, and Sedo is investigating the reports, all while the domain is in auction without a reserve. WBS.com was registered in 1995, and was used for years as a host of the World Billfishing Series. Accordin...
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May 13, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, stolen domains, WBS.com, WBS.com stolen, WBS.com stolen domain
Wipro, an Indian company used by many western corporations as an outsourced services provider, announced a security breach of its IT systems via The Times of India. “We detected a potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our ne...
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April 16, 2019 DomainGang
brian krebs, cybercrime, Domain Crime, Krebs on Security, Wipro
Two Romanians were convicted by the US court system, after they engaged in a decade-long activity of spreading computer malware, and using a network of fake escrow services to collect funds from as many as 400,000 victims. According to testimony at tri...
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April 16, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Escrow.com, online crime, Romanian scammers
If your domain was stolen, either due to a phishing scheme at your registrar, or by some means of social engineering, we’re here to assist you recover it. While we can’t provide legal advice, we’re savvy in the process of how an incid...
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March 11, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, stolen domain, stolen domains
The domain name ADE.com has been stolen, and the legitimate owners, KLA Tencor, are in the process of recovering it. Mr. Scott A. Andrews, CEO of KLA Tencor, declared the premium domain asset as stolen. KLA Tencor is the original registrant of the doma...
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February 25, 2019 DomainGang
ADE.com, Domain Crime, James Booth, KLA Tencor, stolen domain
If you are using India’s dot .IN domains to facilitate digital piracy, you are already in trouble. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) of Hollywood has come to an agreement with the Indian domain registry NIXI, enabling them to suspend pirate si...
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February 21, 2019 DomainGang
.IN domains, Domain Crime, domain WHOIS, MPA, piracy
Scammers are improvising new methods to trick visitors into visiting phishing domain names. The new method is utilizing Google Translate, that converts a malicious link into something seemingly innocent. Akamai security researcher Larry Cashdollar, exp...
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February 10, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, domain scams, Larry Cashdollar, Malicious Domains, mediacity.co.in
Cybercriminals use punycode to create domain names that look visually like trusted destinations. Quite often, scammers preying on people’s personal and financial information register domain names that look like Google, Gmail, bank and airline dom...
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February 1, 2019 DomainGang
cybercrime, Domain Crime, punycode domains, Wandera