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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

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The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user BHProxies also used the handle “ hassan_isabad_subar ” and marketed various software tools, including “Subar’s free email creator” and “Subar’s free proxy scraper.”

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Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers

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Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. 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.

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Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

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.” Dean Marks is executive director and legal counsel for a group called the Coalition for Online Accountability , which has been critical of the NTIA’s stewardship of.US. “Even very large ccTLDs, like.de “In my view, this situation with.US should not be acceptable to the U.S. government overall, nor to the US public.”

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. “Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.”

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

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And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . PST on Nov.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

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account for a slew of other “iboss” themed email addresses, one of which is tied to a LinkedIn profile for an Oleg Iskhusnyh , who describes himself as a senior web developer living in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The various “iboss” email accounts appear to have been shared by multiple parties.

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

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I’ve been following Cathy Wood in her analysis on financial markets, so I was in a comfortable and trusted environment. A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net “An overlay on the video pointed to subscribing to the event at their website. “In hindsight, this was an obvious scam.

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