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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Virtualfirefox.com is a domain registered via GoDaddy in 2013 and currently owned by The Mozilla Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation — the makers of the popular Firefox Web browser. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

Krebs on Security

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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