Hackers Control Perl.com Domain Months Before Hijack
Serving articles about the Perl programming language since 1997 and managed by The Perl Foundation, the domain started pointing to a parked site at the end of January, with evidence suggesting connections to sites distributing malware. The issue, some of those involved with maintaining the site said at the time, was related to an account…
How to prepare for and respond to a SolarWinds-type attack
If you use the recently compromised SolarWinds Orion monitoring products, you are already reviewing your infrastructure and possibly blocking network access to the servers in your domain. For those of you who do not use the SolarWinds software, this is an opportunity to review your own processes and determine whether you would have detected the…
What is typosquatting? A simple but effective attack technique
Typosquatting definition A typosquatting attack, also known as a URL hijacking, a sting site, or a fake URL, is a type of social engineering where threat actors impersonate legitimate domains for malicious purposes such as fraud or malware spreading. They register domain names that are similar to legitimate domains of targeted, trusted entities in the…
