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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. When it was initially set up, it took advantage of two managed DNS servers assigned to it by GoDaddy — ns17.domaincontrol.com,

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

Krebs on Security

But a look at the Internet address historically tied to this domain (186.2.171.79) shows the same address is used to host or park hundreds of other newly-minted crypto scam domains , including coinbase-x2[.]net A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net ” Ark-x2[.]org org is no longer online.

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