Senator accuses sloppy domain registrars of aiding Russian disinfo campaigns

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Senator accuses sloppy domain registrars of aiding Russian disinfo campaigns
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Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner is demanding to know why, in the wake of the bust-up of a massive online Russian disinformation operation, the names of six US-based domain registrars seem to keep popping up as, at best, negligent facilitators of election meddling.

This problem isn't new, either: Warner said abuse of domain name registration services is ongoing and"the industry's inattention to abuse has been well-documented for years, enabling malicious activity … all possible because of malicious actors using your services.""Given the continued lapses of your industry to address these abuses, I believe Congress may need to evaluate legislative remedies," Warner threatened.

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Of course, the same defense evasion, backup disruption, process termination and other tricks the older version of Qilin had are all still there, making this one nasty piece of work. As we noted in our earlier coverage of Qilin's activities, the allegedly Russian group relied on zero-day vulnerabilities to break into NHS systems, a common technique.

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