
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

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

March 6, 2024
FLORIDA: I get this question quite often and it’s pretty important to know the difference. I’ve discussed a bunch of similar issues with domain and site ownership in my book

February 29, 2024
TEL AVIV – As part of a sophisticated scheme involving spam proliferation and click monetization, over 8,000 domains and 13,000 sub-domains once owned by major, legitimate brands and institutions have been

September 7, 2023
PHOENIX, AZ – Namecheap, the Phoenix, Arizona-based domain name registrar and web hosting company originally founded in 2000, recently announced that they have given away a total of 500,000 free

August 31, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – WordPress – which recently made headlines when they offered up to one million Google Domains customers free transfers to their service after the company’s assets were acquired

May 5, 2020
PALM BEACH, FL – I have been thinking about this off and on for a few years now, but I have never really posted or written about it. That is

December 17, 2019
PALM BEACH, FL – Nothing could better destroy your holiday spirit than a compromise of your most secure personal information in the form of a phishing expedition. Here is one

October 19, 2019
PALM BEACH, FL – The largest child exploitation website on the Internet “Welcome to Video” which, according to GitHub was using a dark-web address of “mt3plrzdiyqf6jim.onion” was seized and/or shut
October 3, 2019
BERLIN – Thirteen people were arresting during a raid in Germany on September 27, 2019. According to Brian Krebs, a security journalist and investigative reporter for Krebs on Security, the