“SubdoMailing” — Thousands of Hijacked Major-Brand Subdomains Found Bombarding Users With Millions…

“SubdoMailing” — Thousands of Hijacked Major-Brand Subdomains Found Bombarding Users With Millions of Malicious Emails

By Nati Tal, Oleg Zaytsev (Guardio Labs)

Guardio Labs uncovers a sprawling campaign of subdomain hijacking, compromising already over 8,000 domains from esteemed brands and institutions, including MSN, VMware, McAfee, The Economist, Cornell University, CBS, Marvel, eBay and others. This malicious activity, dubbed “SubdoMailing”, leverages the trust associated with these domains to circulate spam and malicious phishing emails by the Millions each …

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