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Since 1998, the domain name TulipBulbs.com was used by the Messelaar Bulb Company in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The specialty flower grower of the “finest quality topsize flower bulbs, imported from Holland” was founded in 1969 and operated it...
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June 30, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, Escrow.com, Messelaar Bulb Company, Pieter Messelaar, tulip bulbs, TulipBulbs.com
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has seized Simp3.com, a domain used to pirate music at a grand scale. Registered in 2015, Simp3.com provided downloads of mp3 music as seen in this capture from 2019: The domain was seized along with the assoc...
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June 23, 2022 DomainGang
CoroUrbano.com, CoroUrbanos.com, Domain Crime, Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, Pautamp3.com, Seized domains, Simp3.com
The FBI has shut down the SNNDOB Marketplace and seized its associated domain names. The illicit marketplace made an estimated $19 million dollars by selling the personal data of about 24 million US citizens, according to the Justice Department. The ac...
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June 8, 2022 DomainGang
doj, Domain Crime, SNNDOB Marketplace, SSNDOB, SSNDOB Marketplace
The domain F45.com was auctioned off on DropCatch last week, as a deleted domain, closing at $49,544 dollars. F45.com has an interesting past, as it was stolen from photographer, Rolfe Horn in late 2015, by serial domain thief Oleksandar Sapoval. Now, ...
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May 30, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, F45 Training, f45.com, Oleksandar Sapoval, Rolfe Horn, stolen domain f45.com
F45.com is most likely the youngest LNN .com in the world, having dropped and re-registered three days ago. When the DropCatch auction completes, F45.com will be won by the highest bidder. The ongoing auction ends in a few hours, with a currently high ...
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May 25, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, f45, f45.com, Oleksandar Shapoval, Rolfe Horn, stolen domain
Some unfortunate owners of the highly valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs lost their assets yesterday. The cybercriminals took advantage of a security lapse at the BAYC Instagram page, substituting the official link with one they controlled. Using the d...
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April 26, 2022 DomainGang
BAYC, Domain Crime, NFT, Yuga Labs, YugaLabs.land
The high traffic domain FreeDesignResources.net was reported as stolen at GoDaddy yesterday. The domain has been a popular repository of graphic resources, with a high followship on Adobe Behance and Facebook. The brazen thief is seeking to extort $5,0...
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April 25, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, FreeDesignResources.net, stolen domains
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
A phishing attempt targeting domain investors used the name of a law firm as the main bait. As reported by domain investor, George Kirikos, the phishing email consisted of a link to open an “encrypted file” using the Evernote platform. At t...
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March 23, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, domain fraud, domain phishing, Evernote, phishing
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