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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” The 911 user interface, as it existed when the service first launched in 2016. Another domain tied to the ustraffic@qq.com email in 2016 was ExeClean[.]net com , cleantraffic[.]net

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day.

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