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We are sad to report that on the evening of December 6, the Israeli military killed our friend Dr. Refaat Alareer in northern Gaza, in what was apparently a targeted …
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You don’t have to be visited by multiple spirits on Christmas Eve to know the technologies of eDiscovery Days past, present and future have changed and continue to do so at an increasingly rapid pace. In the spirit of eDiscovery Day (see what we did there), TCDI’s Caragh Landry and David York will reflect on […]
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Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have a successful history of co-hosting the Cricket World Cup, but today the two countries’ governments have found themselves on a sticky wicket by co-hosting a phishing attack that targets UK banking customers.
Victims lured to a certain page on the Lanka Government Network website at lgn2.gov.lk will be swiftly redirected to a phishing site hosted by the Rajshahi Metropolitan Police in Bangladesh (rmp.gov.bd).
The phishing site hosted on a Bangladesh Police website.
It is unlikely that either government is consciously hosting a phishing attack in unison like this, especially on a website belonging to a police force – although this should certainly make the crime easier to investigate.
Many phishing sites and other web-based types of cybercrime are hosted on compromised servers, and that looks likely to be the case in this instance. Last month, the homepage of lgn2.gov.lk was defaced by a group identifying itself as Cyb3r Drag0nz, indicating that they had gained unauthorised access to the web server.
Things seem to have spiralled out of control ever since. The Lanka Government Network website is now heavily compromised and currently hosts multiple web shells in addition to being involved in this phishing attack.
The PHP web shells hosted on lgn2.gov.lk include variants of the mini shell, including 1337 3YP455 and CasperSecurity. These allow files to be uploaded to the web server, which may have been how the phishing content – and other web shells – have been placed on the site.
Other web shells found on the Lanka Government Network site include variants of the WSO web shell (such as YANZ bypass and V3n0m), which let attackers run arbitrary commands on the web server, manage files, and carry out attacks against other servers.
The LGN website promotes a secure government network for Sri
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A new Ponemon report showed the average total cost for the most expensive healthcare cyberattack experienced was $4.4 million, including $1.1 million in lost productivity. As healthcare executives look to protect…
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November 29 saw the passing, at age 100, of Henry Kissinger, who was the most powerful figure in U.S. diplomacy in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He was Pres. Nixon’s …
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It has been six months since Netcraft first reported on abuse of the new .zip TLD, outlining the fraudulent activity we detected and blocked. Within weeks of its launch, Netcraft had detected many fresh .zip domain registrations designed to exploit confusion between the new TLD and the .zip file extension for ZIP archives.
So, what has changed in the last 6 months? Not much, it seems.
The rate of new .zip domains registrations has declined since our previous blog post. Despite this, there are now:
Out of these domains, we discovered 5 serving zip bombs. In addition, the larger number of distinct IP addresses (1 for every 4 domains now, compared to 1 for every 6 domains six months ago) suggests that .zip domains are becoming more diverse.
Netcraft has blocked 50 malicious .zip domains since the previous post on 17 May 2023, bringing the total to 56. These domains mostly impersonate Microsoft, Google, and Steam, as the following figure illustrates:
Other notable attacks include:
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In the November 2023 survey we received responses from 1,092,141,942 sites across 269,029,841 domains and 12,483,638 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 1.2 million sites, a gain of 1.1 million domains, and a gain of 112,102 web-facing computers.
OpenResty saw the largest gain of 2.4 million sites this month. This gave it a slight increase in market share from 8.14% to 8.37% (+0.23pp). Its market share has remained stable between 7.7% and 8.7% since February 2022.
Meanwhile, nginx suffered the largest loss of 4.5 million sites this month, meaning it now accounts for 22.83% of the market. This continues the decline observed in recent years, with its market share now down 13.71pp since July 2021.
This month also saw the full effects of Squarespace’s acquisition of Google Domains, which closed on 7th September 2023 after the acquisition was first announced in June 2023. Over 25 million sites, primarily parked domains, moved from Google to Amazon this month – a 20% increase in the number of sites hosted by Amazon.
We also observed sites switching away from DediPath, which abruptly announced its closure on 31st August 2023. Following on from a smaller decline of 10% last month, there was a further exodus this month, with 85% of the remaining 5,403 sites leaving the hosting provider: 34% of these sites switched to Tencent, and 43% were shut down altogether. DediPath’s computer count decreased a further 61%, leaving the company with just 628 web-facing computers. DediPath continues to urge its customers to back up their data and migrate away as soon as possible.
| Developer | October 2023 | Percent | November 2023 | Percent | Change |
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| nginx | 253,876,735 | 23.22% | 249,368,944 | 22.83% | -0.39 |
| Apache | 249,833,078 | 22.85% | 248,343,154 | 22.74% | -0.11 |
| Cloudflare | 116,314,628 | 10.64% | 115,937,937 | 10.62% | -0.02 |
| OpenResty | 88,981,001 | 8.14% | 91,405,835 | 8.37% | 0.23 |
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With laser communication poised to further enhance satellite communication capabilities, the future holds immense promise for a universe connected by laser light.
Future relations between the EU and Ukraine will depend on much more than financial and military aid or complying with European legislation.
On November 16, we released Episode 1 of our new podcast, the PalCast, a collaboration with Tortoise Shack Media of Dublin, Ireland. Episode 2 dropped two days later– and we’d …
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