Our latest blog is out! It covers a rising issue that many major organization experiences: Subdomain hijacking through abandoned cloud resources.

This research follows our reporting from earlier in the year about the CDC subdomain hijack. We initially assumed that this was an isolated incident. Well… We were wrong.

We tied some of this activity to a threat actor, dubbed Hazy Hawk, who hijacks high-profile subdomains which they use to conduct large-scale scams and malware distribution.

https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-hijacking-forgotten-dns-records-enable-scam-actor/

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Forgotten DNS Records Enable Cybercrime

Learn about a threat actor who discovers lingering DNS records from discontinued cloud services and uses them to deliver scams through adtech.

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Imagine a cunning cyber gang exploiting forgotten DNS records to hijack trusted domains. Could your cloud service be the next target for Hazy Hawk’s sneaky tactics?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/hazy-hawk-a-new-threat-in-dns-security/

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MEW: #HazyHawk, a new threat exploiting abandoned cloud resources (S3, Azure) and DNS gaps since Dec 2023.

Read: https://hackread.com/hazy-hawk-attack-abandoned-cloud-assets-since-2023/

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Hazy Hawk Attack Spotted Targeting Abandoned Cloud Assets Since 2023

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