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COVID-19-related domains remain a concern.
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The non-fungible token (NFT) boom has also led to some serious security incidents. For example, the number of suspicious-looking domain registrations with names of NFT stores increased nearly 300% in March 2021. To participate in an NFT marketplace, you must have an active cryptocurrency wallet. This exposes NFT holders to new risks as attackers can […]
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The Russian government on Wednesday published a list of more than 17,500 IP addresses and 174 internet domains it says are involved in ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks on Russian domestic targets. The list include the FBI and CIA’s home pages, and other sites with top-level domain (TLD) extensions denoting they are registered through countries such as Belarus, Germany, Ukraine and Georgia, as well as the European Union. The Russian government did not publish any proof or evidence backing up its claims about the IP addresses or domains on its list. Russia’s National Computer Incident Response & Coordination Center posted the data in a notice that includes 20 recommendations to ward off attacks, such as robust logging, using Russia-based DNS servers, conducting “an unscheduled change of passwords” and disabling external plugins for websites, according to a Google translation. DDoS attacks — which render websites inaccessible by flooding them with traffic — […]
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Ukrainian officials sent an urgent request Monday to the nonprofit that stewards domain and IP systems key to the global internet, but security experts are warning that it’s not as simple as it looks. Ukraine asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to shut down Russian top-level domains — such as those with the .ru country code — in response to Russia’s use of the internet as a key attack surface for both information operations and cyberattacks. ICANN has not yet responded to the request, Andrii Nabok, head of the expert group for the development of fixed broadband at Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation and Ukraine’s representative to ICANN, confirmed in an email to CyberScoop. The email, first reported by Rolling Stone, presses ICANN to “revoke, permanently or temporarily” Russian domains, revoke identification certificates for the domains and shut down DNS root servers in the Russian Federation. […]
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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Ukraine & Russia Situation From a Domain Names Perspective“: For a few days, the eyes of the world are on the situation between Russia and Ukraine. Today, operations are also organized in the “cyber” dimension (besides the classic ones – land, air, sea,
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To stage a phishing site, cybercriminals have several options. They can use a legitimate domain that has been compromised, they can abuse free hosting services, or they can register their own domain. Understanding the prevalence of each scenar… Continue reading Most Phishing Attacks Use Compromised Domains and Free Hosting