
March 2, 2025
AUSTRALIA – A South Australian woman narrowly avoided a complete financial disaster after falling victim to a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) scam that led to the loss of over

January 9, 2025
BATH, UK – More than 4,000 web backdoors that had been abandoned but were still active with live malware were hijacked and their communication infrastructure sinkholed – a term used to

August 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The FBI has announced they have shut down a prolific ransomware group known as “Radar/Dispossessor” and seized multiple internet domains and servers utilized by the cyber threat actors, reportedly

July 18, 2024
NEW YORK, NY – Last week, multiple organizations with domains registered with Squarespace had their websites hijacked by hackers, with most of the instances primarily targeting cryptocurrency-based businesses, such as Celer
June 12, 2024
BOZEMAN, MT – In a significant data breach, several major companies have been impacted due to vulnerabilities in their Snowflake cloud storage accounts. The breach, which came to light in

April 25, 2024
UNITED KINGDOM – The LabHost phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, which had tens of thousands of phishing domains linked to it and thousands of users worldwide, has had its infrastructure completely disrupted and
January 18, 2024
CAYMAN ISLANDS – My.box Inc. has announced what they referred to as the groundbreaking “future of digital identity” in the domain name industry: the impending launch of their new “.box” domain,

December 21, 2023
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Leading internet service provider, Xfinity, recently released information regarding a major data breach that is expected to have affected millions of customers. The offenders exploited a vulnerability

February 8, 2021
PALM BEACH, FL – I have been reviewing and writing about email phishing scams for years and I have seen a ton of them, from outright laughable in their easy
October 22, 2019
PALM BEACH, FL – Sometimes I read stories that really make me think (and worry). For those who have great domains under management, you might feel super-safe by using “two
December 19, 2017
NEW YORK – A few months ago in September, I wrote about a plugin (Display Widgets Plugin) which was sold to someone who used it to compromise over 200,000 websites
September 12, 2017
NEW YORK, NY – It seems like a new security threat is born each day; maybe that is because there is. For those who operate WordPress sites, including myself, there
January 12, 2017
There is one thing that can come between you and your business regardless of whom you are and how safe you feel your security procedures might be and that’s theft