The Deeper Root Cause of the Fastly and Akamai Outages
As we finished this article, the world was hit by another global outage by content delivery network (CDN) provider, Akamai, on June 17, 2021. The cause seems to be related to the lack of capacity to a...
View ArticleA Glimpse of Big Telcos' Domains and Subdomains Footprints
Telecommunications companies are a favored cyberattack target. After all, telcos build, control, and operate critical infrastructure that almost everyone uses to communicate. They also store large...
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WhoisXML API Enriches Its DNS Database Download Capabilities
WhoisXML API's repository of historical Domain Name System (DNS) lookup records continues to grow in volume and coverage. The DNS database download service has recently been expanded to now include six...
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A Look Back at the 2016 U.S. Elections-Related Attacks
Thanks to Dancho Danchev, WhoisXML API's DNS Threat Researcher, for the original investigation available here and that led to the creation of this post. The 2016 U.S. elections sparked a lot of...
View ArticleThe Importance of Understanding Attacker Target Selection
There's a bit of a debate going on about whether the Kaseya attack exploited a 0-day vulnerability. While that's an interesting question when discussing, say, patch management strategies, I think it's...
View ArticleAre There More Properties Connected to the Pareto Botnet?
The initial findings used to uncover more Pareto botnet-related artifacts were collated by WhoisXML API security researcher Dancho Danchev. The Pareto botnet, known for using almost a million infected...
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Liberty Front Press Network: An IoC Enrichment & Threat Intelligence...
Liberty Front Press is a fake news network that has been operating since Trump's administration and was said to be designed to leverage liberal resentment against the former U.S. president while...
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Euro 2020 Part Two: eCommerce Marketplace Activity
Co-authored by David Barnett, subject matter expert, Brand Monitoring and Pascal Rodax, manager, Business Development Following our previous article on the Euro 2020 football tournament that looked...
View ArticleDomains Are a Critical Component of Your Enterprise Risk Management
A recent report "Domain Security: A Critical Component of Enterprise Risk Management” published by the Interisle Consulting Group highlights why domain security should be a critical component of...
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WhoisXML API Upgraded Its Web Categorization Engine
Web categorization engines and related tools are built to help organizations classify websites they do business or generally interact with. WhoisXML API's Website Categorization API and Website...
View ArticleZero-Trust Implementation Using WHOIS, IP, and DNS Data
The U.S. government released the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity in May 2021, highlighting the rationale of a zero-trust security approach. While the order only covers the...
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The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Tandem's Effects on Domain and Subdomain...
It has been months after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office as president and vice president of the U.S., respectively. And since that time, they were naturally featured in most news outlets. What...
View ArticleUncovering Office 365-Related Artifacts with IP and Domain Intelligence
While Office 365 is one of the most prevalent office suites out in the market today, its users can't rest easy. Cybercriminals and threat actors will always find ways to abuse the most popular brands...
View ArticleIt's Time to Rethink Outage Reports
Much has been said about the criticality of the small coterie of large-scale content distribution platforms and their critical role in today's Internet. These days when one of the small set of core...
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Could the LGBTQ Community Be a Target of Internet Threat Actors?
Pride month is celebrated worldwide. While it's meant to be a time of celebration for members of the LGBTQ community and their families and supporters, its popularity has also made it a possible target...
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