Η GoDaddy admitted to being the victim of an assault. The attackers managed to trick GoDaddy employees working in the domain registration department. In doing so they redirected email and web traffic on various cryptocurrency trading platforms to their own websites last week.
The Krebs on Security page he says that the attack began on November 13 with an attack on liquid.com.
"Hosting provider GoDaddy, which manages one of our primary domains, accidentally handed over control of the domain to a malicious user," Liquid CEO Mike Kayamori said in a blog post. companys.
"This allowed the malicious user to modify the DNS and take control of a number of internal email accounts. Thus it managed to partially endanger our infrastructure and gain access to store records.
In the early morning hours of November 18, 2020 (CET), the mining service NiceHash ανακάλυψε ότι ορισμένες από τις ρυθμίσεις για των DNS του domain που είχε στην GoDaddy είχαν αλλάξει. Έτσι οι κακόβουλοι χρήστες ανακατευθύνθηκαν το email και την κυκλοφορία του domain. Η NiceHash πάγωσε όλες τις συναλλαγές για περίπου 24 ώρες μέχρι να επαληθεύσει ότι οι ρυθμίσεις του domain είχαν επαναφερθεί στην αρχική τους κατάσταση. “Μέχρι στιγμής δεν φαίνεται να έχουν διαρρεύσει email, passwords or personal information, but we recommend changing your password and enabling 2FA security,” the company said on its blog.
Many cryptocurrency platforms were probably attacked by the same group. Domains include: Bibox.com, Celsius.network and Wirex.app.
GoDaddy told KrebsOnSecurity that "a small number of its clients' domains had changed" when a "limited number" of GoDaddy employees fell victim to a social engineering scam.
GoDaddy is often victim of attacks.
