[78-L] DANGEROUS EMAIL from Mathew Duncan ! ! !

[ron at fial.com.invalid]

DO NOT OPEN ABOVE EMAIL FROM:       

       [78-L] 78 l!   Matthew Duncan 

The link in this email may contain a hacker Trojan or other bad action.

DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE EMAIL    

TWO SECURITY SITES HAVE FLAGGED THIS DOMAIN, BUT MOST SECURITY SITES 
HAVE NOT.

The      j.mp   DOMAIN GOT THROUGH THE SECURITY FILTERS AT 78-L

If you have clicked on the link, please run a scanner such as Malwarebytes, Norton, etc and 
also Microsoft Defender if that is on your PC.

Rant:

Between 2008 and 2012 ICANN added a process for creating privately controlled domain 
names with a $50,000 application fee.  This opened Pandora's box and released a slew of 
new domains owned by ISPs willing to grant domain name ownership to criminals and 
thieves.   So damn ICANN for such a stupid and selfish move, it did cause  millions of dollars 
to flow in, resulting in all these crap domains for bad hackers to exploit.

If you start allowing hacker exploits on a .gov, .com, .edu, .net, .org domain, you may quickly 
lose your sub-domain name, like 78-L.com.   If you are a domain registrar, you may lose your 
ability to register (sell) domain names.  Each domain name costs about $40 per year.     

The registrars for new crap domains are selling sub-domain registrations for 60 cents and 
less.    Thus hackers are signing up for domain names and using them for an hour until they 
are listed in all the spam-tracker sites (AKA Black Hole sites) and become useless.  Many of 
these are only used for ransom-ware attacks and such. 

An industry has grown up where large, criminal hacker organizations rent out their attack 
tools to other hackers  --  These 'associates' get percentage cut of the ransom-ware 
payments and other stolen funds.

I wonder if there are any 78 recordings about criminal enterprises.  Had the Internet existed 
in 1920, no doubt there would be an Irish lament about a ransom-ware attack :)
There, now my rant is relevant.

Regards,    Ron Fial    78-L Administrator