Web3-Related Domain Takeovers

Published on: 
July 12, 2024

Domain takeovers of Squarespace-held domains

Crypto News relayed widespread social media reports of Web3-related domain takeovers of Squarespace-held domains. Using 0xngmi’s list as a guidepost, we are releasing passive DNS records for the listed sites observed since 2024-07-01 to allow for further analysis (please note two sets of data, one in epoch time, one set in a subfolder with human-readable time). Inclusion in this list does NOT necessarily indicate compromise.

Crypto News link: https://crypto.news/defi-protocols-compromised-as-many-domains-under-dns-siege/

0xngmi link: https://gist.github.com/0xngmi/789e297f3107d3c28c56da7acf11828d

Passive DNS records: https://github.com/DomainTools/SecuritySnacks/tree/main/2024/DeFiDNS

Screenshots from DNSDB Scout of two services that indicated attempted or successful compromise.

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