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Bottaro is an Italian firm that produces iron wires used internationally. The firm operates from the domain Bottaro.org with is spelled with two “t”s and one “r” letter. Meanwhile, a Chinese cybercriminal registered the domain B...
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May 17, 2022 DomainGang
Bottaro, Bottarro.org, cybercrime, Domain Law
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
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
Heritage Auctions, that often handles premium domain auctions, was targeted by a malware attack. The activity has caused extensive downtime to its auction platform system, that has not been fully restored yet. Active auctions have been extended or resc...
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October 21, 2019 DomainGang
cybercrime, Domain Crime, Heritage Auctions
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
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
A serious vulnerability in the way DNS records are created, left more than 500,000 expired domains at GoDaddy in the hands of cybercriminals. While this was not a GoDaddy-specific issue, the ability to create free DNS records at GoDaddy, literally cost...
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January 23, 2019 DomainGang
cybercrime, Domain Crime, GoDaddy DNS, GoDaddy vulnerability
When you pick domain names that dropped via snap services, such as DropCatch, SnapNames and the like, make sure you research their past. Quite often, domains are used for nefarious purposes, such as cyberattacks, phishing attacks and other cybercrime. ...
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December 31, 2018 DomainGang
cybercrime, Domain Crime, Oreux.com
Investigative journalist, Brian Krebs, covers the onslaught of GDPR and how it will complicate his security research, and that of others. In an article, titled “Security Trade-Offs in the New EU Privacy Law,” Mr. Krebs debunks a series of m...
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April 27, 2018 DomainGang
brian krebs, cybercrime, domain WHOIS, gdpr, Krebs on Security
An elaborate scam used the domain DebtCredit.US to generate thousands of dollars in unlawful IRS refunds, then used a phony debt collection agency to seek their “return.” According to Krebs On Security, the method that these cybercriminals ...
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February 20, 2018 DomainGang
cybercrime, DebtCredit.us, Domain Crime, JCdebt.com, Krebs on Security, tax refund scam