Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Domain squatting can lead you to malicious websites, and it might be too late to realize what actually happened.
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On October 19th, [Seth_h] from the KiCad Project posted on the KiCad forums that the project’s original domain name kicad-pcb.org has been unexpectedly sold to a third party, and urged …read more Continue reading KiCad Team Releases Warning Regarding Domain Name
A sweeping set of surveillance campaigns has hit Google Chrome users, leading to nearly 33 million downloads of malicious software in the last three months, researchers at California-based Awake Security said Thursday. The researchers believe the unidentified hackers used Chrome extensions and other malicious tools — along with domains issued by a single registrar — to spy on computer users in sectors such as oil and gas, finance and health care. The hackers “were very effective in reaching a large number of industries and subverting controls that were in place,” said Gary Golomb, Awake Security’s cofounder and chief scientist. U.S. government contractors were among those targeted, Golomb said. He declined to identify the victims. The discovery exposes another gap in web browser security despite pledges from Google and other vendors to proactively block malicious code from appearing in their official download stores. After being tipped off by Golomb’s team, Google removed […]
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If you visit the website of renowned Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt today, you’ll see a surprising message. “THIS IS NOT PATRICK DEWITT”, it says. Continue reading Frustrated author cybersquats novelist’s website
SpamCannibal returns from the dead to fail all spam queries sent to it – essentially telling you to “block the world”. Continue reading SpamCannibal comes back to life, starts spam-blocking everyone
Keep your old domains, forever. Continue reading Surveillance watchdog learns that old domains never die
Unbeknownst to Reddit users, the site recently acquired an unwanted, evil twin Continue reading Reddit users, beware its evil twin
A squatter bought it and owned it for a month Continue reading Dell forgot to renew the domain it uses for PC backups
The FBI has warned members of its InfraGard program that a website is mimicking its genuine Infragard.org property, requesting login credentials for the bureau’s information sharing platform. “Please be aware www.InfraGard.com is not associated with the InfraGard Program. This site is maliciously collecting information that is entered. You are strongly advised not to visit this site or enter any personal/account information,” an alert sent Friday to InfraGard members reads. The FBI’s threat sharing website has been domain squatted pic.twitter.com/7bVSmPzNIW — Sean Cassidy (@sean_a_cassidy) March 25, 2017 When it was still up and running, the InfraGard.com website offered duplicate forms for new applicants to input sensitive information, including social security numbers. If a user tried logging into the fake site, it would redirect them to the real site’s error page. InfraGard.com was most recently taken down on March 24. The fake site (left) looks pretty close to the real site (right). Easily will fool […]
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