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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

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13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. That alert was triggered by systems E-HAWK had previously built in-house that continually monitor their stable of domains for any DNS changes. Use DNSSEC (both signing zones and validating responses).

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

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Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. net , privatenote[.]io

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

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The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. Before that, the resume says he was operations manager of TikTok’s Middle East and North Africa region for approximately seven months ending in April 2020.