News tagged “domain-abuse” · tldlog

Rare Cyrillic and Latin letters let attackers spoof URLs in Chromium browsers

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:01:28 GMT

Researchers Ian Muscat and Leanne Briffa of Have I Been Squatted found that two uncommon characters, a Cyrillic barred o and a Latin K with hook, can bypass Chromium’s anti-spoofing checks, letting lookalike domains display as trusted brand names.

Source: theregister.com

DOJ and FBI seize domains tied to alleged Chinese cyber espionage tools

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:28:32 GMT

The US Justice Department and FBI seized seven domains linked to two alleged Chinese cyber espionage tools, Microscan and FishHub, which they say were used by actors tied to Integrity Technology Group to target critical infrastructure in the US, Asia and Europe.

Source: circleid.com

Quad9 resists French pirate-site blocking order, faces huge daily fines from beIN

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:40:29 GMT

Swiss DNS resolver Quad9 has not blocked any of the 58 domains a Paris court ordered it to restrict for French users, prompting broadcaster beIN Sports to seek penalties of up to €580,000 per day.

Source: torrentfreak.com

SIDN identifies 2,900 gambling-related domains under .nl

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:49:19 GMT

Dutch registry SIDN has found around 2,900 domains under the .nl extension linked to gambling content. The registry says about half of these are expired domains that new owners acquired to host links to gambling sites. The finding highlights how abandoned domains can be repurposed for unrelated or unwanted content.

Source: domainbrief.de