"'Prolific Puma' Hacker Gives Cybercriminals Access to .us Domains"

A link-shortening service provides cyberattackers and scammers with .us top-level domains, making their phishing campaigns slightly less detectable. Infoblox researchers have dubbed the threat actor responsible for the operation "Prolific Puma." Prolific Puma has generated as many as 75,000 unique domain names in the past 18 months, evading regulations to provide criminals with .us URLs. Renee Burton, head of threat intelligence at Infoblox, explains that shortened links offer the bad actor a shorter link for their text message (so it fits in SMS), a hidden destination (so users are more likely to click), and resistance to detection by automated security products. This article continues to discuss cybercriminals upping their phishing with shortened links.

Dark Reading reports "'Prolific Puma' Hacker Gives Cybercriminals Access to .us Domains"

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