CREFinancing.com: Domain has been reported by its owner as stolen

Posted by DomainGang on August 17, 2023, at 8:59 pm

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: Commercial real estate (CRE) lending includes acquisition, development, and construction (ADC) financing and the financing of […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Abe Brand, CRE Financing, CREFinancing.com, GoDaddy, domain crime, stolen domain, stolen domains

Domain shadowing: An emerging threat used by cybercriminals

Posted by DomainGang on July 17, 2023, at 9:07 am

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 secretly create and control subdomains under a legitimate domain, without the owner’s knowledge or consent. This tactic has become a […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Cybersecurity, InterNetX, Simone Catania, domain crime, domain shadowing

BreachForums and associate #domains were seized by the FBI

Posted by DomainGang on June 23, 2023, at 1:28 pm

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 in March. Fitzpatrick, who used the handle “pompompurin,” is charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with BreachForums, Domains, FBI, FBI seizure, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Seized domains, domain crime

Massive drop of phishing domains registered at Freenom after Meta sued

Posted by DomainGang on May 30, 2023, at 3:39 pm

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 Republic, .ga for Gabon, .gq for Equatorial Guinea, .ml for Mali, and .tk for Tokelau. Freenom has always […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domains, Phishing domains, domain crime, freenom, meta

Operation Royal Flush: Feds seize cache of malicious domains

Posted by DomainGang on April 22, 2023, at 2:39 pm

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 warrant issued by the US Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Judging from the domains […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domains, Homeland Security Investigations, Operation Royal Flush, Seized domains, domain crime

Silicon Valley Bank crash triggered onslaught of domain registrations

Posted by DomainGang on March 13, 2023, at 6:48 pm

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB,) a commercial bank headquartered in Santa Clara, California, has caused plenty of market instability. SVB was the 16th-largest bank in the United States when it collapsed on March 10th, ending 40 years of banking activities. On March 13, 2023, the FDIC transferred all deposits—both insured and uninsured—and substantially […]

Filed under Domain News, Domain Crime · Tagged with DomainTools, Domains, SVB, SVB domains, SVB.com, Silicon Valley Bank, domain crime, phishing, security

Stolen domains: Fey.com, DRP.com, Still.com

Posted by DomainGang on February 4, 2023, at 10:29 am

The domain names Fey.com, DRP.com, and Still.com have one thing or two in common. For starters, all 3 domains are registered at Network Solutions, using WHOIS privacy. They are premium and aged, as they were registered in the mid 1990s. One more thing in common is that they have been reported as stolen, by two […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with DRP.com, Domain theft, Fey.com, Network Solutions, Network Solutions certified offer, Still.com, domain crime, domains stolen, stolen, stolen domains

Domains seized, arrests made: Boot stresser crimes terminated by the FBI

Posted by DomainGang on December 14, 2022, at 7:40 pm

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 […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Brian Krebs, DOJ, Domains, booter, criminal charges, criminals, domain crime, domain services

FBI seizes 17 domain names in defrauding scheme

Posted by DomainGang on November 15, 2022, at 4:31 pm

The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service have seized 17 domains that were part of a defrauding scheme. US law enforcement has investigated the activity of the scammers since February 2021, after the FBI’s IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) received 64 complaints about the scammers. The domains now display a warning by the US authorities: […]

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Fake US Post Office SMS: Phishing campaign uses .US #domain names

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2022, at 1:23 pm

A new phishing campaign utilizes SMS messages, sent from scammers that want you to believe there’s a problem with a package delivery. The SMS message states more or less the following: [Postal Service] Your package is on hold due to incomplete address information. Modify your address to ensure delivery per schedule. Visit [domain removed] The […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with .us domains, Domains, NameSilo, SMS phishing, domain crime, domain scam, sms SCAM

Forsage.io identified in $300 million dollar pyramid scheme

Posted by DomainGang on August 1, 2022, at 2:39 pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged 11 individuals for their roles in creating and promoting Forsage, a fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme that raised more than $300 million, defrauding millions of retail investors worldwide. According to the SEC’s complaint, in January 2020, Vladimir Okhotnikov, Jane Doe a/k/a Lola Ferrari, Mikhail Sergeev, and Sergey […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domains, Forsage, Forsage scam, Forsage.io, Ponzi cheme, SEC, SEV, domain crime

Sonoma Valley Hospital: SVH.com is still a stolen #domain name

Posted by DomainGang on July 2, 2022, at 2:32 pm

On August 6, 2019, the Sonoma Valley Hospital went into red alert. Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospital’s communications director, noted at the time that SVH.com, their prestigious three letter .com domain and hospital acronym, had been “maliciously acquired.” It was yet another case of domain hijacking, with a highly valuable LLL .com getting […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, SVH.com, Sonoma Valley Hospital, domain crime, stolen domains