eBay, VMware, McAfee Sites Hijacked in Sprawling Phishing Operation
“The uncovered operation involves the manipulation of thousands of hijacked sub-domains belonging to or affiliated with big brands,” head of Guardio Labs-Cybersecurity Nati Tal and security researcher Oleg Zaytsev wrote in a post on the content-sharing platform Medium. “Complex DNS manipulations for these domains allowed the dispatch of vast quantities of spammy and just outright malicious emails, falsely authorized under the guise of internationally recognized brands.”