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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. based domain name registrar and hosting provider.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

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guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz guru show that in 2018 the domains were forwarding incoming email to the address obelisk57@gmail.com. has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day.

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Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers

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But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. based United Rentals [ NYSE:URI ] is the world’s largest equipment rental company, with some 18,000 employees and earnings of approximately $4 billion in 2018. Stamford, Ct.-based

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” .” “It also enables the end user to probe the LAN network of the infected node,” the paper continues. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net su between 2016 and 2019.

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Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

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Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. Zoobashop is also a presently hacked e-commerce site. In September, Symantec said it blocked almost a quarter of a million instances of attempted formjacking since mid-August 2018.

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