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Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”

Krebs on Security

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. And the bulk of these are at a handful of DNS providers.”

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT?

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

. “A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, io seem like a legitimate website.

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

Krebs on Security

A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net ” According to FinTelegram , a blog that bills itself as a crowdsourced financial intelligence service that covers investment scams, SmartApe is a “ Russian-Israeli hosting company for cybercriminals.”

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Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook

Krebs on Security

According to DomainTools.com , the organization that registered this domain is called “ apkdownloadweb ,” is based in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and uses the DNS servers of a Web hosting company in Bangladesh called webhostbd[.]net. net for DNS. net DNS servers). xyz and onlinestreaming[.]xyz. Livestreamnow[.]xyz

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