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

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

Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen ...
GoDaddy Hosting Hacked — for FOURTH Time in 4 Years

GoDaddy Hosting Hacked — for FOURTH Time in 4 Years

GoDaddy’s web hosting service breached yet again. This time, the perps were redirecting legit websites to malware ...
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‘Sophisticated’ Threat Actor Stole GoDaddy Code

Threat actors lingered in GoDaddy’s systems, installing malware and stealing source code in a security incident that lasted years. After receiving complaints from a few customers in December that their websites were ...
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The Role of Empathy in Ethical Social Engineering

The Role of Empathy in Ethical Social Engineering

As cybersecurity becomes an ever-increasing concern, more people are becoming interested in a career in the field of cybersecurity. A major factor of cybersecurity is learning how cybercriminals use social ...
Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’

Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’

A key malicious domain name used to control potentially thousands of computer systems compromised via the months-long breach at network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds was commandeered by security experts and used as ...
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, ...

GoDaddy Security Incident, Fake Downloaders, Firefox Lockwise

In episode 120 for May 11th 2020: The latest on the GoDaddy security incident affecting 28,000 customers, fake Microsoft Teams notification emails and Zoom downloaders, and details on new features to the ...
GoDaddy Data Breach Affects 28,000 User Accounts

GoDaddy Data Breach Affects 28,000 User Accounts

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, has confirmed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in October 2019. Unfortunately, the web-hosting company only discovered the ...
Crooks Continue to Exploit GoDaddy Hole

Crooks Continue to Exploit GoDaddy Hole

Godaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest ...
Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months -- including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of ...