GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains

ronjor · Apr 25, 2019

Brian Barrett 04.25.19

You’ve seen the ads in your email or online: Celebrities supposedly hawking miracle weight loss cures or galaxy brain supplements. They’re at this point endemic to the web, as deeply ingrained as hashtags and puppies. But even though plenty of people fall for them, no one ever really does anything about it. Of all the security threats online, spam ranks pretty low on the priority list.
Which is why it’s surprising, and welcome, that GoDaddy and security firm Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have taken down 15,000 subdomains dedicated to selling those phony pharmaceuticals under false pretenses. And the two-year investigation that led them there offers some useful insights into what makes these campaigns tick.
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