The third quarter of 2023 closed with 359.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.7 million domain name registrations compared to the previous quarter, according to the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief released Wednesday at DNIB.com.
APT29, believed to be an espionage group from Russia, became known for launching targeted attacks against organizations in Ukraine. But over the course of investigating the threat group, Mandiant discovered that it may have a hand in cybercriminal operations, specifically phishing, as well.
BlackNet RAT, first discovered during the COVID -- 19 pandemic and being distributed via spam messages offering an effective cure for the virus, seems to have outlived the global crisis.
Phishing campaigns almost always require a massive volume of domains in order to succeed. Phishers, after all, need to have readily weaponizable vectors at their disposal in case the ones they're currently employing get detected and consequently blocked.
Threat researcher Dancho Danchev recently discovered a phishing operation that seemed to be abusing .top domains for which he collated 89 email addresses that served as indicators of compromise (IoCs).
Threat actors have been seen yet again abusing a technology meant to make things easy for all of us -- QR codes -- in one of the most commonly utilized cybercriminal activities - phishing. The rise in QR code phishing isn't surprising given that according to several studies, as much as 86% of the entire global population use their mobile phones for all kinds of transactions, including financial ones.
A phishing campaign is currently targeting Facebook business accounts with password-stealing malware. The attackers have been using a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages.
Rhysida, a new ransomware currently plaguing users may not be novel, but it's proving to be just as effective. Fortra published an in-depth analysis of the malware currently holding the data of healthcare organizations primarily based in the U.S. hostage.
It's not uncommon for cybercriminals to tweak an existing piece of malware and then call it a new creation. We've seen that happen even in malware's earliest days. It's actually happening more and more these days, especially with the rise of the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) business model.
Radix announced the sale of the domain betting.online for $400,000. The sale was directly done via the registry and was facilitated by escrow.com. This is the highest* sale in the last 5 years for any new gTLD and ties the spot for the 5th highest* domain sale YTD among all TLDs in 2023, as per DNJournal.