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Major campaign

Every day of the campaign, some five million emails were being sent.

Once registered with NameCheap, the hackers hijack the domain and send spam and phishing emails.

Woman shocked by online scam, holding her credit card outside

With include:, the attackers were able to import allowed email senders from the external domain.

Consequently, all of the emails would pass throughsecurity checksand land straight into peoples inboxes.

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