Analyzing Smishing Campaigns, Daily PTR Scanning, and New Dashboard Feeds

Welcome back to Validin's monthly newsletter and thank you for inviting us into your inbox. This month we published research that uncovered a penalty scam's infrastructure, tracking short-lived phishing domains using Validin’s pivoting capabilities to proactively detect related infrastructure. We also released two new features to the platform: Dashboard Feeds and Daily PTR Scanning. As always, we appreciate any feedback! - The Validin Team

FEATURED RESEARCH

Analyzing Penalty Charge Notice (PCN), Winter Fuel Payment UK.GOV Smishing

Researcher Memento Mori analyzes and explores a UK smishing campaign spoofing government services like Penalty Charge Notices and Winter Fuel Payments. By tracking short-lived phishing domains using Validin’s pivoting capabilities, they were able to proactively detect related infrastructure. 👉 Read the full report

BY THE NUMBERS

August's Top Viewed Threat Actor Profiles

If you're logged into Validin, view the full profiles:

1. Lazarus Group
2. Kimsuky
3. ClickFix
4. Fake Software Downloads
5. Scattered Spider

PRODUCT UPDATES

Introducing Dashboard Feeds and Daily PTR Scanning

This month’s updates are small but open the door for more efficient daily workflows. We’re rolling out two upgrades designed to make it easier to stay on top of fast-moving threats and ensure more complete DNS coverage: Dashboard Feeds and daily PTR (Pointer) record scanning. 👉 See what’s new

NON-PROFIT COLLABORATION

Helping The Shadowserver Foundation

This past month Validin helped cyber non-profit The Shadowserver Foundation significantly increase their awareness of exposed, vulnerable servers with our virtual host coverage. Read their LinkedIn post tagging us, here.

SEE YOU SOON

Validin is heading to LABScon in September

We're excited to announce we are heading to Scottsdale, Arizona this September to sponsor and attend LABScon. If you're headed there, we'd love to meet you in person!