Domains seized, arrests made: Boot stresser crimes terminated by the FBI
A group of six individuals were charged with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of services facilitating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These services provided “for hire” attacks on demand to anyone willing to pay money to perform electronic warfare on internet destinations and web sites. Each defendant allegedly operated at least one […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WeLeakInfo : Client database leaked after #domain expired
A little over a year ago, the FBI seized the domain name WeLeakInfo.com, a rogue provider of hacked credentials. At the time, WeLeakInfo claimed to provide its clients a searchable index of personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records. It seems that wli.design, one of the domains […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Unauthorized person registered a dot .GOV #domain with fake documents!
This is one for the facepalm department. An unauthorized individual managed to register a dot .GOV domain name, using fake papers and social engineering. Apparently, the US General Services Administration– the federal agency responsible for managing the .gov domain registration process – failed to validate the request, made by an individual who impersonated the mayor […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Indian outsourcing company, #Wipro, hit with security breach of its email systems
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 network due to an advanced phishing campaign” Wipro said in a statement. Investigative reporter, Brian […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain crime : Expired and dropped #domains in the hands of credit card phishers
Domains that drop or expire and become available for a small fee, often get picked up for their existing traffic. In the past, such pickups were made by domain investors, who’d park the domains with related keywords, earning PPC revenue. Domain parking has suffered big blows in the past decade, and now these domains are […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Krebs on Security uses #DomainTools to identify #domains on spamming network #Bitcanal
Brian Krebs, investigative journalist and publisher of the infosec blog Krebs On Security, uses DomainTools to research rogue domain owners. In a recent article, Krebs shared news of how Bitcanal – a Portuguese network – has been aiding spammers by hijacking millions of IP addresses. According to Krebs, security researchers have tracked the suspected theft […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Security expert Brian Krebs rips #ICANN in #GDPR report covering #WHOIS
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 myths and misconceptions about GDPR and in the process, it rips ICANN a new hole. […] […]
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