BradWilson
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As a follow up to my previous post, GoCrappy aka GoDaddy continues to have problems related to their email and their employees.
The result is a significant problem to business owners when they lose access to their domains causing serious security issues including lost income and trust.
This time their employees are being attacked from outside the company instead of the company itself.
In the post GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
In my opinion and experience, GoDaddy hasn't learned anything over the years about dealing with employees who work with email and this problem just seems to be getting worse.
The result is a significant problem to business owners when they lose access to their domains causing serious security issues including lost income and trust.
This time their employees are being attacked from outside the company instead of the company itself.
In the post GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
...tricking employees into transferring ownership and/or control over targeted domains to fraudsters.
In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.
This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com.
...cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site.
But he said GoDaddy was impossible to reach at the time because it was undergoing a widespread system outage in which phone and email systems were unresponsive.
In my opinion and experience, GoDaddy hasn't learned anything over the years about dealing with employees who work with email and this problem just seems to be getting worse.
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