Employees of GoDaddy, the big daddy of domain name registrars, were target by a vishing scam late last week.
And this is exactly what happened to employees of GoDaddy. The employees were tricked into transferring ownership and/or control over targeted domains to the tricksters, reported by Krebs on Security.
This, however is not the first instance of such an activity involving GoDaddy employees.
In March this year, the employees were tricked into allowing the attackers to take control of multiple domain names, and 28000 customers’ credentials were breached. You can read more about this here
Liquid.com’s, a cryptocurrency trading platform, CEO Mike Kayamori said in a blog post “On the 13th of November 2020, a domain hosting provider “GoDaddy” that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor…….We believe the malicious actor was able to obtain personal information from our user database. This may…