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Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers

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Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. “UR uses a third party marketing agency that utilizes the Pardot platform,” said Salesforce spokesman Bradford Burns.

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Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

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for Germany — which has a far larger market share of domain name registrations than.US — have very low levels of abuse, including phishing and malware,” Marks told KrebsOnSecurity. “Even very large ccTLDs, like.de “In my view, this situation with.US should not be acceptable to the U.S.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

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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. But roughly two weeks ago, VIP72’s online storefront — which ironically enough has remained at the same U.S.-based

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

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According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user BHProxies also used the handle “ hassan_isabad_subar ” and marketed various software tools, including “Subar’s free email creator” and “Subar’s free proxy scraper.” 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. “Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.”

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

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“This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. Actively scan and monitor web applications for unauthorized access, modification, and anomalous activities. Verify web links do not have misspellings or contain the wrong domain.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

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Historical DNS records from Farsight Security show angrycoders.net formerly included the subdomain “smollalex.angrycoders[.]net” The UpWork profile page for the Angry Coders programming team from Omsk, RU. Who is the “ Alexander S.”

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