Silicon Valley Bank crash triggered onslaught of domain registrations
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stolen domains: Fey.com, DRP.com, Still.com
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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.FBI seizes 17 domain names in defrauding scheme
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: […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fake US Post Office SMS: Phishing campaign uses .US #domain names
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Forsage.io identified in $300 million dollar pyramid scheme
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sonoma Valley Hospital: SVH.com is still a stolen #domain name
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Homeland Security seized Simp3.com among other pirate domains
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 associate domains, CoroUrbano.com, CoroUrbanos.com and Pautamp3.com. The latter was used to provide download links […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The FBI shut down SSNDOB Marketplace criminal platform, seized domains
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 acronym SSNDOB stands for Social Security Number and Date Of Birth; it operated through a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.F45.com: Auctioned domain was picked up by F45 Training
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, the domain F45.com forwards to F45 Training, an Australian company with global presence. According […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.F45.com: After a theft and a UDRP, this domain is now in auction
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 bid at $13,050 dollars. F45.com has a history though that might affect […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bored Apes worth $1 million stolen using a dot .land #domain name
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 domain YugaLabs.land, the criminals set up a page mimicking Yuga Labs, operators of the BAYC franchise. […]
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