Haven’t posted in this section for awhile (which has been renamed Using URLs Effectively). In today’s lesson we see an attempt at a “call-to-action” URL on a vehicle:
Yahoo testing blocking your email access if you use ad-blockers
Last week the news broke that Yahoo had begun testing a new initiative where users with ad-blocking enabled would be denied access to their email. I’ve been in this business a long time, we’ve been through countless DDoS attacks, and a lot of “red-alert” situations. From those experiences I can tell you that users are […]
Spearphishing attack targeting multiple registrars – "From Abuse Desk"
There are multiple reports today across multiple registrars that customers are being targeted in another spearphish purporting to come from the Registrar’s “Abuse Department”:
Phishing emails directed to easyDNS members
Be on the lookout for a phishing email a la: From: “Easy DNS” <iem@easydns.com> Reply-To: mark***@easydns.com Subject: , Your account was hacked! Hey, Your account was hacked. To change your password, please click here. The link goes to hxxp://pasilpowers.com/r/easydns/EMAIL, where EMAIL is the email address the message was delivered to. (Update) How it happened Some […]
Most ridiculous legal request ever?
Imagine explaining to a customer that they have to drop products from their online store or even that you took their domain down because you received the following “FDA” request from (quite literally) “some guy on the internet”:
New GTLDs are great for pump-and-dumps, phishes and more….
Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (and easyDNS client) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown engineered what looks to be a textbook “pump-and-dump” on Twitter’s stock by putting up a fake “Bloomberg Financial News” site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares […]
