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  2. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    Domain Status Notes Sources American News americannews.com Defunct Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. president. The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook, a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election. [11]

  3. Domain hijacking - Wikipedia

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    Domain hijacking is analogous with theft, in that the original owner is deprived of the benefits of the domain, but theft traditionally relates to concrete goods such as jewelry and electronics, whereas domain name ownership is stored only in the digital state of the domain name registry, a network of computers.

  4. Fast flux - Wikipedia

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    A fast-flux service network (FFSN) is a network infrastructure resultant of the fast-fluxed network of compromised hosts; the technique is also used by legitimate service providers such as content distribution networks (CDNs) where the dynamic IP address is converted to match the domain name of the internet host, usually for the purpose of load balancing using round-robin domain name system ...

  5. Cozy Bear - Wikipedia

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    Cozy Bear has been observed using an initial exploit or phishing email with malicious attachments to load a dropper which installs a Duke variant as a persistent trojan onto the target computer. It then gathers and sends data to a command and control server based on its configuration and/or live operator commands.

  6. Rock Phish - Wikipedia

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    In 2004 the first rock phishing attacks contained the folder path “/rock”, which led to the name of the attack, and group. Attackers employed wild card DNS (domain name server) entries to create addresses that included the target's actual address as a sub-domain.

  7. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    • Your inbox is full of MAILER-DAEMON notices for messages you didn't send. • Your Address Book contacts have been erased or there are new contacts you didn't add. Review your AOL Mail settings. Hackers may change the settings in your AOL Mail account to disrupt your inbox or get copies of your emails.

  8. Darcula - Wikipedia

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    Darcula is a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) Chinese-language platform which has been used against organizations (government, airlines) and services (postal, financial) in over 100 countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Darcula offers to cybercriminals more than 20,000 counterfeit domains (to spoof brands) and over 200 templates.

  9. List of phishing incidents - Wikipedia

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    The term "phishing" is said to have been coined by the well known spammer and hacker in the mid-90s, Khan C. Smith. [3] The first recorded mention of the term is found in the hacking tool AOHell (according to its creator), which included a function for attempting to steal the passwords or financial details of America Online users.