Domain Shadowing

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2017
Experts shut down tens of thousands of subdomains set up with a domain shadowing campaign

Experts killed tens of thousands of subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit Kit that were set up with a domain shadowing campaign. GoDaddy and RSA Security, with the support of other security companies and researchers, have shut down tens of thousands of illegally established subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2015
GoDaddy accounts compromised to run a campaign based on Angler kit

Experts at Cisco discovered a new technique dubbed Domain Shadowing consisting in the creation of thousand subdomains used to spread the Angler exploit kit Cyber criminals have used hundreds of legitimate domain name accounts registered through GoDaddy to run a malicious campaign using the popular Angler exploit kit. Crooks hacked domain name accounts in order […]