Category: Security
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Phishing attacks in Singapore increased by 829% in 2021
Zscaler ThreatLabz has released the State of Phishing Report 2022. The Report highlights different trends related to phishing scams in the previous year. According to the report, phishing scams increased worldwide by 23%. The US is the most phished country in the world with it attracting more than 60% of all attacks. The US is…
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Court smashes dreams of SattaDream11.com
Gambling has seen an unseen expansion and acceptance in the last two decades, especially Online Gambling. Many countries are loosening their laws and allowing online gambling platforms mostly centered around popular sports events to be organized and also to thrive. One of the major proponents of this sector in India is Dream 11. The company…
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Red Sift’s new brand protection tool: OnDomain
With the phishing domain swarm percolating through the Cyber security defenses continues, brand security is a legitimate concern. In view of this larger issue, Red Sift, a cybersecurity company has launched an additional tool on its range of brand protection of services: OnDomain. Businesses are always vulnerable to malicious domain names and need a tool…
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European Police teams up to take action against domain names
European Police have taken a joint action against an entity selling sensitive user data online. Several domain names related to the notorious platform RaidForums through the operation named TOURNIQUET. EuroPol has achieved this through hard work and determined planning. The platform RaidForums operated through the principal domain name RaidForums.com. Two other domain names pointed to…
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Microsoft seizes several domain names related to Ukraine Crisis
The tragic war between Russia and Ukraine has been getting worse. As the war continues, the hostilities are getting worse and worse. The West continues to target Russia with their economic strongholds. Microsoft too has taken swift action against several domain names related to the crisis. Microsoft has announced that it has seized 7 domain…
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Brands’ fear of trademark violations in Russia
The Russia-Ukraine crisis’ fire fails to extinguish even after a month, since the global tragedy began. Human lives have been lost and irreparable damage has been done to the resources as well as psyche of people involved. As a retaliation to the growing worldwide support for the Ukrainians, several brands based in ‘enemy countries’ of…
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Contradicting views on ICANN’s DNS Abuse Trends report
ICANN has recently published its report on the trends in DNS Abuse cases perpetrating online. The report covers cases occurring in the period of the past 4 years, beginning October 2017 till January 2022. The report however, did present some facts that might appear contradicting to the prevailing notions of DNS Abuse trends. The report…
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Delhi High Court grants injunction to Adobe over counterfeit domain names
Delhi High Court faced a legal dispute against the domain name and trademarks belonging to Adobe. The Respondent is involved in several trademark infringements related to domain name registrations. The Court was brought into face to face with the registration of two domain names: Addobe.com and Adobee.com. There is no doubt regarding the similarity of…
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Thailand Pass name gets attacked again, this time by emails
In an earlier post, we talked about how a domain name was troubling the Thailand Pass system of the Thai Government. The same system has been targeted again online, this time in a different way. Instead of attacking through counterfeit domain names they have now resorted to sending emails. A report by Pattaya Mail, warns…
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When Department of Labor domain name was spoofed
While going through my research related to domain names, I stumbled upon this awesome podcast called Federal Drive with Tom. In an episode, Mr. Roger Kay came as a guest and talked about an interesting phishing scam related to the Department of Labor. Kay during his work noticed a pattern in a number of cases…
