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Palm Springs event aims for Guinness World Record with Marilyn Monroe impersonators

📰 Original title: Photos: Marilyn Monroe look-alikes to set record

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Palm Springs event aims for Guinness World Record with Marilyn Monroe impersonators

A large gathering of Marilyn Monroe look-alikes is set to take place in downtown Palm Springs, California, as part of an effort to set a new Guinness World Record. Organized by Greater Palm Springs Pride, the event celebrates what would have been the iconic Hollywood actress’s 100th birthday. The goal is to assemble up to 500 volunteers dressed as Monroe, surpassing the current record of 254 impersonators, which was established in Brighton, Australia, in 2020. Participants in the event paid a $75 registration fee and were provided with signature Monroe-inspired items, including a white dress, platinum-blonde wig, cat-eye sunglasses, and a martini glass to complete the iconic look. The celebration includes fans, local residents, and public figures who are participating in the themed gathering. Activities have included costume preparation, wig styling, and photo opportunities at venues such as the Hyatt Hotel and downtown Palm Springs landmarks. The event highlights Monroe’s lasting cultural influence, drawing attention from both fans and media as part of a broader commemoration of her legacy. It also reflects Palm Springs’ ongoing connection to Hollywood history and celebrity culture. Beyond the record attempt, the event serves as a community celebration, bringing together people who admire Monroe’s enduring image in film and pop culture. Organizers hope the gathering will not only break the existing world record but also create a memorable tribute that reinforces Monroe’s iconic status nearly a century after her birth.

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Palm Springs event aims for Guinness World Record with Marilyn Monroe impersonators

📰 Original title: Photos: Marilyn Monroe look-alikes to set record

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/palm-springs-event-aims-for-guinness-world-record-with-marilyn-monroe-impersonators.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social

#culture #marilynmonroe #lookalikes #guinnessrecord

Palm Springs event aims for Guinness World Record with Marilyn Monroe impersonators

A large gathering of Marilyn Monroe look-alikes is set to take place in downtown Palm Springs, California, as part of an effort to set a new Guinness World Record. Organized by Greater Palm Springs Pride, the event celebrates what would have been the iconic Hollywood actress’s 100th birthday. The goal is to assemble up to 500 volunteers dressed as Monroe, surpassing the current record of 254 impersonators, which was established in Brighton, Australia, in 2020. Participants in the event paid a $75 registration fee and were provided with signature Monroe-inspired items, including a white dress, platinum-blonde wig, cat-eye sunglasses, and a martini glass to complete the iconic look. The celebration includes fans, local residents, and public figures who are participating in the themed gathering. Activities have included costume preparation, wig styling, and photo opportunities at venues such as the Hyatt Hotel and downtown Palm Springs landmarks. The event highlights Monroe’s lasting cultural influence, drawing attention from both fans and media as part of a broader commemoration of her legacy. It also reflects Palm Springs’ ongoing connection to Hollywood history and celebrity culture. Beyond the record attempt, the event serves as a community celebration, bringing together people who admire Monroe’s enduring image in film and pop culture. Organizers hope the gathering will not only break the existing world record but also create a memorable tribute that reinforces Monroe’s iconic status nearly a century after her birth.

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Infoblox Threat Intel May 29

Threat actors are leveraging shared infrastructure together with subdomain abuse to control and serve hundreds of malicious websites with minimal management.

This week we were investigating a cluster of crypto brand lookalike domains.Through subdomain abuse – often powered by wildcard DNS configurations – just 34 registered domains expand to over 500 scam sites.

Investigating website content across that cluster allowed us to find several additional clusters running the same playbook. Thousands of domains on them.

This initial cluster impersonated dozens of brands — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitmart. Several of these sites push fake app downloads, making malware delivery and crypto wallet theft a likely component of the broader operation.

A sample of the domains associated:

cryptocoinsx[.]cfd
bmarkit[.]com
zznyusbsgo.bitmart[.]pw
4pzyy6n7log71mm0.bitmarts[.]cc
5etxkk2aeh8jfgl0.bitstamptc[.]com

#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #Phishing #Scams #malware #crypto #lookalikes #subdomains #iocs

Infoblox Threat Intel Apr 9

⚽ Threat actors are warming up for the 2026 World Cup—and they’re targeting fans early.

We’ve observed FIFA ticket phishing pages on domains such as fifa[.]bio and ww-fifa[.]com, distributed through malicious spam emails and Facebook ad campaigns. These sites prompt a bogus FIFA ID login to purchase tickets, then transition to a checkout flow collecting personal and payment information.

Payment flows redirect to actor-controlled domains (pay[.]fifa-com[.]com) or Stripe checkout pages with inconsistent merchants (we observed some with suspicious Romanian LLC names).

These recently-registered domains are mostly Cloudflare-hosted, spread across various TLDs, and consistently abuse FIFA branding. If it’s a suspicious domain in your inbox or feed, assume it’s not official. 🛑 ⚽

Domain sample: fifa-2026[.]homes, fifa-com[.]media, www-fifa-com[.]website, vvww-fifa[.]com, fifa-26-worldcup[.]com

#dns #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #FIFA #WorldCup2026 #phishing #scam #lookalikes

Infoblox Threat Intel Feb 17

Two of the biggest heavyweight scam TTPs - malvertising and pig butchering - have combined. In our latest research, we track hundreds of investment‑scam campaigns using this one-two punch to target Japan and the wider Asia region.

The hybrid approach kicks-off with malvertising ads that impersonate well‑known financial experts, funnel victims through lure sites on RDGA‑generated domains, before finally pulling them into messaging chats run by tireless AI‑style pig butcher bots. The result: an industrial‑scale long con, with individual victims reporting losses of up to ¥10M (~US$63k).

This model is reused across different campaigns and, by pivoting on DNS, we've so far been able to map out an ecosystem of over 23,000 domains.

In our latest blog we talk about our first‑hand experience going through the scheme, break down the entire flow, and share all the related IOCs: https://www.blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/banners-bots-and-butchers-an-automated-long-con-targeting-japan-asia-and-beyond/

#Infoblox #InfobloxThreatIntel #dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #malvertising #pigbutchering #rdga #dga #lookalikes #crypto #investment #scam #fraud #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #Japan #Asia #AI