Researchers at watchTowr Labs spent $20 to purchase an expired .mobi top-level domain (TLD) from an inactive WHOIS server. After a few days, they were hit with around 2.5 million WHOIS queries from over 135,000 distinctive systems. The team’s actions demonstrated that many organisations have not updated their systems to recognise the current .mobi WHOIS server. If a malicious actor had the outdated domain, this could lead to issues such as issuing fraudulent SSL/TLS certificates or obtaining remote code execution.
AI Tool To Escalate Privilege & Gain Root Access Within a Minute
RamiGPT, an AI-driven security tool developed by GitHub user M507, can autonomously escalate privileges and gain root access to vulnerable systems in under a minute.
