Cryptocurrency, Social Engineering, VPN and Web Fraud

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. 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. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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