AFNIC emailed its registrars this afternoon to warn about a phishing fraud attack that is using the French ccTLD registry. Earlier this year Nominet, the UK registry, issued a warning about similar emails.
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Nominet Issues Spoofing Warning
In common with many domain registries Nominet relies heavily on email for communication to registrars AND registrants. Unfortunately they seem to have been the target of some spoofing in recent days It sounds like they’ve been the victims of a “Joe Job”, where a spammer basically “hijacks” a person or organisation’s domain when sending mails.… Continue reading Nominet Issues Spoofing Warning