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 […]
Phishing attacks using SMS text messages
Be on your guard, the phishing attacks are coming from every vector nowadays. The other night I received this SMS on my cell phone at about 3:30am. Obviously a fake login site, in this case we can tell from looking at the domain name itself that it was registered for the explicit purpose of setting […]
Confessions of an ex-opponent of Whois Privacy
The following is the easyDNS response to ICANN’ public comment period on GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group Initial Report. The public comment period is open until July 7, 2015. We strongly urge you to make your voice known by signing the petition over at Save Domain Privacy. I submit these comments […]
