Blizzard Members faced a new phishing attack

In the Internet unfolded a new phishing attack aimed directly at fans of multiplayer role-playing games.

Users find in their mailboxes letter with the heading «Blizzard Entertainment IP Restrictions», which informs recipients that their accounts have been compromised. Potential victims advised to confirm the legitimacy of the accounts from the following link.

The letter came illiterate and not authentic. The naked eye can see that the message is not received from Blizzard. Users who clicked on the button after all, got a phishing website trying to lure in visitors personal information. Representatives of Blizzard admitted that these are part of a phishing email scams.

Do not think that this attack is successful. The fact that apart illiterate text document have been admitted actual errors. The letters were signed by «Blizzard Entertainment - Guild Wars 2 Support».

Go Daddy: Theft of our DNS records was carried with the use of phishing

According to the registrar, the incident is not due to the detection of vulnerability management system DNS.

Antivirus company Sophos researchers have discovered that hackers managed to compromise DNS records web-sites on the hosting company Go Daddy. As a result of the incident, a number of portals that are customers of the registrar, redirect your users to malicious resources, which, in turn, contain malicious exploits vulnerabilities.

Operating systems of victims of the attack were infected with malware-extortioners.

When the incident became known to the general public, Go Daddy could not explain exactly how the hackers managed to carry out hacking. But now one of the leaders of the registrar Scott Gerlach said that the reason was the successful hacking phishing attack.

"The Go Daddy recorded a very small number of customer accounts, in which attackers have harmful changes. At the moment, we eliminate these threats as they are discovered. In addition, compromised passwords have been changed - assured Gerlach. - We assume that the victims of the incident was used phishing, or their home computers were infected Cool Exploit ".