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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

October 17, 2023 admin American Registry for Internet Numbers, Amir Golestan, ARIN, Micfo LLC, Ne'er-Do-Well News, spamhaus, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:23:25 +0000

Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean.

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Qakbot botnet infrastructure suffers major takedown

August 31, 2023 admin FBI, hibp, law enforcement, news, qakbot, ransomware, removal tool, spamhaus, takedown

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Tags: Qakbot

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The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies.

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Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

May 26, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, awpg ecrime exchange, dave piscitello, freenom, interisle consulting group, Mastodon, meta, Namecheap, openphish, phishtank, spamhaus

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:37:15 +0000

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal

May 12, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, data breaches, Department of Justice, domain block list, Doxbin, drug enforcement administration, el paso intelligence center, emergency data request, Epic, esp.usdoj.gov, FBI, ICSI, kt, lapsus$, law enforcement inquiry and alerts, leia, national seizure system, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nicholas Weaver, nss, spamhaus, The Coming Storm, u.s. drug enforcement agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 11:00:30 +0000

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment community that routinely impersonates police and government officials to harvest personal information on their targets.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

September 2, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Adconion Direct, Amir Golestan, Amobee, ARIN, Blackstar Media LLC, CAN-SPAM, Daniel Dye, HostWinds, Jacob Bychak, Kim Perell, Mark Manoogian, Media Breakaway, Micfo, Mohammed Abdul Qayyum, Optinrealbig, Peter Holden, Petr Pacas, Scott Richter, SingTel, Spam Nation, spamhaus, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:52:00 +0000

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are likely just the opening salvo in a much larger, ongoing federal investigation into the company’s commercial email practices.

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Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

August 25, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Active Sun Network, AdGenics, Barbarich_Viacheslav_Yuryevich, Breadcrumbs, Cabo Networks, Hicham Aallam, mtaexpert, rescator, Ron Guilmette, SIFT Logic, spamhaus, uscourtsgov, web-shield

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:35:40 +0000

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it’s likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with their own versions of the phishing email after noticing that some recipients were actually paying up. The truth is we may never find out who’s responsible, but it’s still fun to follow some promising early leads and see where they take us.

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Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

June 11, 2018 admin .accountant, .bid, .click, .country, .date, .gdn, .jetzt, .kim, .loan, .mom, .ren, .stream, .vip, .wang, .win, .xin, A Little Sunshine, download, ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, men, Namecheap, new TLD spam, new TLDs, OpenDNS, party, racing, Review, Richard Kirkendall, spamhaus, Symantec, Top 20 Shady Top-Level Domains, Trade, work

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:42:39 +0000

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations.

Independent Krebs

Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly

March 29, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, antistrophebail, Dynamic Dolphin, Kacy Manning, Matthew Chambers, Media Breakaway LLC, microsoft, MySpace, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ryanteraksxe1@yahoo.com, Scott Richter, secureworks, spamhaus, typosquatting, UDRP

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:08:16 +0000

Take care when typing a domain name into a browser address bar, because it’s far too easy to fat-finger a key and wind up somewhere you don’t want to go. For example, if you try to visit some of the most popular destinations on the Web but omit the “o” in .com (and type .cm instead), there’s a good chance your browser will be bombarded with malware alerts and other misleading messages — potentially even causing your computer to lock up completely. As it happens, many of these domains appear tied to a marketing company whose CEO is a convicted felon and once self-proclaimed “Spam King.”

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