Sunday, December 21, 2014

Icann Staff Was Hit By Attackers with Spoofing Emails



The Icann staff has been attacked by using spoofing emails, as the result the staff handing over login names and passwords, as Digital Marketing Agency reported.

By this way, Hackers have managed to penetrate the network used by the organization that oversees the net.

One more thing said spoofed emails were used to reach an internal network and then the attackers have used this access to steal lists of contact and login information for people who control some of the net's most popular domains. 

Leading to Icann said, “It had notified people that their data may have gone astray and asked them to change their passwords”.

In a blogpost, Icann said that some of its staff was tricked into opening booby-trapped email messages sent by attackers that were crafted to look like they came from other employees.

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