Prolific Puma protects pernicious phishing plotters

We're all familiar with link shortening services, those handy tools that allow you to shrink URLs down to a manageable size to make them easier to share. Of course in the past these have been used for nefarious purposes too, hiding the true nature of a link to get people to click on phishing or malware messages. Now though researchers at Infoblox have uncovered something even more sinister, the operation of a shady link shortening service made especially for cybercrime. Called 'Prolific Puma', the service creates domain names using a registered domain generation algorithm (RDGA) and uses these to provide… [Continue Reading]