GoDaddy Hack Breaches Hosting Account Credentials

UPDATE GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, is warning customers that attackers may have obtained their web hosting account credentials. An “unauthorized individual” was able to access users’ login details in an intrusion that the company said took place back in October — the compa...

Hacker defaces Escrow.com by hacking GoDaddy employee’s account

By Sudais Asif If you are aware of what Escrow.com is, you may also know how huge this cyber attack is. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker defaces Escrow.com by hacking GoDaddy employee's account...

Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

A spear-phishing attack this week hooked a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The incident gave the phisher the ability to view and modify key customer records, access that was used to change domain settings for a...

WordPress GoDaddy godaddy-email-marketing-sign-up-forms plugin cross-site request forgery vulnerability

WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language by the WordPress Foundation. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the WordPress GoDaddy godaddy-email-marketing-sign-up-for...

CVE-2016-10903

The GoDaddy godaddy-email-marketing-sign-up-forms plugin before 1.1.3 for WordPress has CSRF...

CVE-2016-10903

The GoDaddy godaddy-email-marketing-sign-up-forms plugin before 1.1.3 for WordPress has CSRF...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The GoDaddy godaddy-email-marketing-sign-up-forms plugin before 1.1.3 for WordPress has CSRF...

CVE-2016-10903

CVE-2016-10903 is a CSRF vulnerability in the GoDaddy WordPress plugin GoDaddy Email Marketing Sign-Up Forms, affected in versions before 1.1.3. Multiple sources (NVD, Red Hat, CNVD, PRION, CVE lists, and WPVulndb) consistently identify the issue as cross-site request forgery within this plugin. ...

CVE-2016-10903

The GoDaddy godaddy-email-marketing-sign-up-forms plugin before 1.1.3 for WordPress has CSRF...

WAFW00F v1.0.0 - Detect All The Web Application Firewall!

WAFW00F identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall WAF products. How does it work? To do its magic, WAFW00F does the following: Sends a normal HTTP request and analyses the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions. If that is not successful, it sends a number of potentially...

GoDaddy Shutters 15,000 Subdomains Tied to 'Snake Oil' Scams

Researchers at the security firm Palo Alto Networks worked with domain registrar and web hosting firm GoDaddy to shut down 15,000 subdomains pitching ‘snake oil’ products and other scams. The takedowns are linked to affiliate marketing campaigns peddling everything from weight-loss solutions and...

GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains

You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 8)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week Attackers continue to utilize...

Crooks Continue to Exploit GoDaddy Hole

Godaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy's fix hasn't gone far enough, and that scammer...

A week in security (January 21 – 27)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at Modlishka, the latest hurdle in two-factor authentication 2FA, the potential for abuse of push notifications, a malware-phishing combo by the name of CryTekk ransomware, and why we detect PUPs, but enforce the power of users' choice. We...

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months -- including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year -- were made possible thanks to an authentication...

Beware of Hurricane Florence Relief Scams

If you're thinking of donating money to help victims of Hurricane Florence, please do your research on the charitable entity before giving: A slew of new domains apparently related to Hurricane Florence relief efforts are now accepting donations on behalf of victims without much accountability fo...

Partnerstroka: Large tech support scam operation features latest browser locker

Tech support scams continue to be one of the top consumer threats in 2018, despite actions from security vendors and law enforcement. Scammers are constantly looking for new ways to reel in more victims, going beyond cold calls impersonating Microsoft to rogue tech support ads using the good name...

GoDaddy Leaks ‘Map of the Internet’ via Amazon S3 Cloud Bucket Misconfig

UPDATE GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has exposed high-level configuration information for tens of thousands of systems and competitively sensitive pricing options for running those systems in Amazon AWS, thanks to yet another cloud storage misconfiguration. The documents wer...