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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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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. -based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. The domain Vip72[.]org “ Haxdoor ,” and “ Nuclear Grabber.”

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Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers

Krebs on Security

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

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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 service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes.

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