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Jessica Haworth

05 January 2022 at 14:56 UTC

Updated: 05 January 2022 at 14:57 UTC

Attackers leverage software supply chain to compromise high-traffic sites

Web skimming attacks are targeting hundreds of real estate websites via a cloud-based video hosting service, researchers have warned.

A blog post from Unit 42, the research arm of Palo Alto Networks, revealed how attackers are using the service to carry out a supply chain attack to inject card skimming malware onto victim sites.

Web skimming attacks occur when malicious script is injected into sites to steal information entered into web forms.

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For example, an online booking form…

Real estate agent fired after Epik hack shows he allegedly owned racist and antisemitic websites(iStock)

A South Florida real estate agent was fired by his broker after being named in a massive leak of hacked data from Epik, a domain registrar that hosts websites with far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content.

Pompano Beach agent Joshua Alayon allegedly tried to register domains that include racisminc.com, holocaust-truth.com, theholocaustisfake.com, whitechristianrepublican.com and whitesencyclopedia.com, Inman and the Washington Post reported. Alayon denied owning theracisminc.com site, which posts racist memes, but didn’t answer a question about who owned it.

Alayon hung his license with Parkland-based Travers Miran Realty for about eight months. Broker and owner Rick…

Parler, an alt-right social network favored by some Trump supporters, is set to go dark Sunday after Amazon’s AWS division said it’s pulling the plug on the service’s hosting account.

Amazon informed Parler, which boasts of a hands-off policy to content moderation, of the imminent loss of its web hosting services on Saturday. That came after Apple and Google banned Parler from their respective app stores, also citing Parler’s inaction on policing violent and harmful content.

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In explaining its decision, Amazon said it found nearly 100 examples of violent threats posted on the far-right social app. News of AWS’s move to drop Parler was first reported by BuzzFeed.

“AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to…