The domain name CREFinancing.com has been reported by its owner, Mr. Abe Brand, as stolen. The perpetrator moved the stolen domain to Google Domains from GoDaddy. The term “CRE financing” is quite valuable, hence the reason it was targeted:…
Greece’s only ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Papaki, has suffered a security breach. The incident was disclosed on July 27th and a notice was sent out to account holders. The Papaki team has detected an unauthorized third-party access to thei…
To cybersecurity experts, domain shadowing has emerged as a significant threat. Cybercriminals exploit legitimate domain names to carry out malicious activities while staying under the radar. Domain shadowing is a technique that cybercriminals use to s…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the domain of BreachForums, a cybercrime marketplace. This action comes three months after the alleged administrator of the site, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aged 20, was arrested in Peekskill, New York…
The number of phishing domains at Freenom after Meta, Inc.sued dropped dramatically, according to Krebs on Security. Freenom is a domain name registry service provider for five country code top-level domains (ccTLDs): .cf for the Central African Republ…
Two weeks ago, the Google Registry opened the domain floodgates with no less than 8 new gTLDs: .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov, and .nexus. You can read about who is being targeted with each new gTLD from Google and the news isn’t how t…
The US Justice Department announced the seizure of 13 domain names used by Specially Designated Nationals (SNDs), Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and their members associated with the Lebanese Hezbollah. Here is the breakdown of the dom…
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Ukrainian law enforcement have seized the domains of nine digital currency exchanges, which were allegedly aiding cybercriminals. In a coordinated effort, the FBI’s Detroit Field Office …
US authorities have seized a group of domain names linked to illegal and malicious activities. Operation Royal Flush is the name of the latest domain seizure operated by the department of Homeland Security Investigations, in accordance with a seizure w…
