GoDaddy employees tricked into helping attackers breach crypto services

GoDaddy, a popular internet domain registrar and web hosting firm, has struggled to keep up its security walls against cyber criminals this year. According to Kerbsonsecurity, GoDaddy employees were tricked into giving ownership or control several cryptocurrency services’ web domains to hackers.

As of now, it is not clear how GoDaddy employees were tricked into doing so. GoDaddy confirmed small number” of customer domain names had been altered after a “limited” number of GoDaddy employees fell for what is being dubbed as a social engineering scam.

Top cryptocurrency services such as NiceHash and Liquid have confirmed facing cybersecurity issues. According to the website, the cyberattacks appear to have begun on or around November 13 with Liquid being the first target. NiceHash reported a hack on November 18. Bibox.com, Celsius.network, and Wirex.app have also reportedly faced attacks.