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Someone could be using your domain right now and you would not know

DEV Community·Kishore Bhavnanie·21 days ago
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Right now, as you read this, someone could be sending emails from your domain. They could be hosting a phishing page on one of your forgotten subdomains. They could be in the process of transferring your domain to a registrar in another country. And you would not know, because you are not watching. This is not fear mongering. This is what happened to the CDC, MSN, eBay, Marvel, McAfee, VMware, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cornell University, and thousands of other organizations. Not because they had weak passwords or got tricked by phishing emails. Because they had DNS records pointing to resources they forgot about, and nobody was monitoring those records for changes. The Attacks That Already Happened to Organizations Like Yours In February 2024, Guardio Labs uncovered a campaign called SubdoMailing that had hijacked over 8,000 domains and 13,000 subdomains belonging to major brands . The hijacked domains were being used to send five million fraudulent emails per day.…

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