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751 Domains Hijacked to Redirect Traffic to Exploit Kits
BleepingComputer The domain hijacking event also broke incoming HTTPS traffic to the affected domains. Following the incident, Gandi reset all passwords for all the accounts it uses to manage TLD entries at country and domain-specific registrars. Last week, a security … |
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751 domains hijacked to redirect visitors to exploit kit
Help Net Security An unknown attacker has managed to modify the name servers assigned to 751 domains, which resulted in some visitors to the hijacked domains being redirected to a site hosting the Rig Exploit Kit and delivering the Neutrino Bot. domains hijacked … |
The latest version of Google Chrome, released earlier this week, restricts how domain names that use non-Latin characters are displayed in the browser. This change is in response to a recently disclosed technique that could allow attackers to create highly credible phishing websites.
The ability to register domain names made up of characters like those found in the Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew and other non-Latin alphabets dates back over a decade. Since 2009, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has also approved a large number of internationalized top-level domains (TLDs) — domain extensions — written with such characters.
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New Internet Security Domains Debut – Dark Reading
Dark Reading Registry operator gen.xyz these week launched two new top-level Internet domains — .security and .protection — aimed at creating websites with higher security … |