Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors
Security firm Infoblox shines light on malicious infrastructure lurking beneath illegal gambling sites
If your employees are visiting Chinese-language gambling or adult sites, they may not just be wasting time and money, but potentially encountering serious malware hidden behind domains that look like mostly harmless entertainment at first glance.
A report from Infoblox urges the security community to pay closer attention to these websites, because some double as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure for espionage and malware distribution.
Zach Edwards, staff threat researcher at Infoblox, suggests security researchers and the media have ignored these sites because the story is complicated and confusing.
Infoblox says it tracks about 1.7 million Chinese-language casino websites that facilitate illegal gambling. These support North Korean money laundering and tax avoidance, among other dubious activities.
And these casino sites can be difficult to distinguish from one another. They tend to use variations of common templates in terms of...
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