As seen yesterday the distribution service domain names DomainTools βίωσε μια επίθεση “Email harvesting.” Η επίθεση αυτή επικεντρώνεται στη collection email of users of the service and according to the company the hackers καταχράστηκαν ένα ελάττωμα που ανακάλυψαν στις διαδικασίες ενημέρωσης e-mail που μπορεί να χρησιμοποιήσει κάθε user.
So the company informed all its customers as it claims malicious script used by the hackers managed to collect a few hundred current and even older email addresses post officey from DomainTools accounts.
The company urges all DomainTools account holders to change the passwords they use as a precautionary measure, although as the company says, their research does not show that passwords have leaked.
As the hacker seems to have used e-mail addresses from past known violations and ran them in the e-mail update service of the service. In this way, he was able to confirm that DomainTools had a limited number of e-mail addresses he used in the attack.
Of course the company ends the email notification of the attack by apologizing to the account holders for the inconvenience it has caused.
DomainTools reported that it has already repaired its security gap and has applied additional monitoring for any account violations after yesterday's hack.
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