Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. And the bulk of these are at a handful of DNS providers.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

A few months later, Bryant documented the same technique being used to take over more than 120,000 trusted domains for spam campaigns. When someone wants to register a domain at a registrar like GoDaddy, the registrar will typically provide two sets of DNS records that the customer then needs to assign to his domain. ” SAY WHAT?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

Squarespace says domain owners and domain managers have many of the same privileges, including the ability to move a domain or manage the site’s domain name server (DNS) settings. “If you bought Google Workspace via Google Domains, Squarespace is now your authorized reseller,” the help document explains.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

“This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

” This attack comes on the heels of another targeted phishing campaign leveraging Pardot that was documented earlier this month by Netskope , a cloud security firm. “A large number of enterprises provide their vendors and partners access to their CRM for uploading documents such as invoices, purchase orders, etc.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government believes the brains behind Joker’s Stash is Timur Kamilevich Shakhmametov , an individual who is listed in Russian incorporation documents as the owner of Arpa Plus , a Novosibirsk company that makes mobile games. Joker’s sold cards stolen in a steady drip of breaches at U.S.

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