Malicious actors have taken notice of news about the US Social Security System. We've seen multiple spam campaigns that attempt to phish users or lure them to download malware.

Emails with subjects like "Social Security Administrator.", "Social Security Statement", and "ensure the accuracy of your earnings record" contain malicious links and attachments.

One example contained a disguised URL that redirected to user2ilogon[.]es in order to download the trojan file named SsaViewer1.7.exe.

Actors using social security lures are connected to malicious campaigns targeting major brands through their DNS records.

Block these:

user2ilogon[.]es
viewer-ssa-gov[.]es
wellsffrago[.]com
nf-prime[.]com
deilvery-us[.]com
wllesfrarqo-home[.]com
nahud[.]com.

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Last week, while reviewing detected lookalike domains, one in particular stood out: cdsi--simi[.]com. A quick search pointed him to a legitimate U.S. military contractor, CDSI, which specializes in electronic warfare and telemetry systems. It's legitimate domain cdsi-simi[.]com features a single hyphen, whereas the lookalike domain uses two hyphens.

Passive DNS revealed a goldmine: a cloud system in Las Vegas hosting Russian domains and other impersonations of major companies.

Here are a few samples of the domains:

- reag-br[.]com Lookalike for Reag Capital Holdings, Brazil.
- creo--ia[.]com Lookalike for an industrial fabrication firm in WA State.
- admiralsmetal[.]com Lookalike for US based metals provider.
- ustructuressinc[.]com Lookalike Colorado based Heavy Civil Contractor.
- elisontechnologies[.]com Typosquat for Ellison Technologies machine fabrication.

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Dear Fediverse,

PowerDNS-Admin appears to be deprecated in favour of pda-next which hasn't seen any work in nigh on a year. NixOS is keeping it limping along; but there're more and more cracks appearing.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an alternative web interface for administering PowerDNS ?