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Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

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Prosecutors say Anonymous Sudan offered a “Limited Internet Shutdown Package,” which would enable customers to shut down internet service providers in specified countries for $500 (USD) an hour. An indictment in the Central District of California notes the duo even swamped the websites of the FBI and the Department of State.

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U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

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A graphic from the FBI explaining how Funnull generated a slew of new domains on a regular basis and mapped them to Internet addresses on U.S. based cloud networks, as doing so can result in blocking access to many legitimate web destinations that are also on that same shared network segment or host. cloud providers.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

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Cached versions of weblistingsinc.org at archive.org show logos similar to the one featured on the Web Listings mailer, and early versions of the site reference a number of “business partners” in India that also perform SEO services. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

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These so-called “push notifications” rely on an Internet standard designed to work similarly across different operating systems and web browsers. The company’s site currently is ranked by Alexa.com as among the top 2,000 sites in terms of Internet traffic globally.

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

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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.

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

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2020 blog post on an ongoing Qakbot campaign that was first documented three months earlier by Check Point Research. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

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. “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. The internet is a public resource; only post information you are comfortable with anyone seeing.