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November 21, 2020 09:34 pm

Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack

"Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week," reports security researcher Brian Krebs:The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned... This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com. "A domain hosting provider 'GoDaddy' that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor," Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. "This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage." In the early morning hours of Nov. 18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disclosed that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. NiceHash froze all customer funds for roughly 24 hours until it was able to verify that its domain settings had been changed back to their original settings. "At this moment in time, it looks like no emails, passwords, or any personal data were accessed, but we do suggest resetting your password and activate 2FA security," the company wrote in a blog post. NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. But he said GoDaddy was impossible to reach at the time because it was undergoing a widespread system outage in which phone and email systems were unresponsive. "We detected this almost immediately [and] started to mitigate [the] attack," Skorjanc said in an email to this author. "Luckily, we fought them off well and they did not gain access to any important service. Nothing was stolen...." [S]everal other cryptocurrency platforms also may have been targeted by the same group, including Bibox.com, Celcius.network, and Wirex.app. None of these companies responded to requests for comment. In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged that "a small number" of customer domain names had been modified after a "limited" number of GoDaddy employees fell for a social engineering scam.

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