InfoSec News Nuggets 1/28/2025

DeepSeek’s top-ranked AI app is restricting sign-ups due to ‘malicious attacks’ After surging to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, DeepSeek’s AI Assistant is now restricting new user sign-ups. According to an incident report page, registrations are being temporarily limited “due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek’s services,” though it’s unclear how these limitations are being applied. “Existing users can log in as usual,” DeepSeek said in its update. “Thanks for your…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 1/16/2025

Microsoft stops using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google Microsoft has quietly killed off its spoofed Google UI that it was using to trick Bing users into thinking they were using Google. Earlier this month you could search for “Google” on Bing and get a page that looked a lot like Google, complete with a special search bar, an image resembling a Google Doodle, and even some small text under the search bar just…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 02/21/2023

GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach  Web hosting giant GoDaddy says unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year attack. While GoDaddy discovered the security breach in early December 2022 following customer reports that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years. "Based on our investigation,…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 11/29/2021

GoDaddy Breach Widens to Include Reseller Subsidiaries The GoDaddy breach affecting 1.2 million customers has widened – it turns out that various subsidiaries that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress were also affected. The additional affected companies are 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple and tsoHost. The world’s largest domain registrar confirmed to researchers at Wordfence that several of these brands’ customers were affected by the security incident (and Wordfence provided breach-notification notices from two of…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 11/24/2021

GoDaddy hack causes data breach affecting 1.2 million customers In a data breach notification published today, GoDaddy said that the data of up to 1.2 million of its customers was exposed after hackers gained access to the company's Managed WordPress hosting environment. The incident was discovered by GoDaddy last Wednesday, on November 17, but the attackers had access to its network and the data contained on the breached systems since at least September 6, 2021.…
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