Comment by HocusLocus

I've followed Krebs for years and appreciate this specific warning. I changed my dad's default Windows colors so when he was presented with fake system dialogues floating on web pages he'd spot them as different right away. But the "click allow to prove you're a human" might have caught him. Captcha-annoyed people are slightly easier to fool sometimes. Push wasn't a big thing then or I would have disabled it.

Dad was one of those late computer adopters who had to be instructed carefully about things pretending to be other things and and nested windows. I remember when pages spawning new windows (then grabbing focus to hide them) was a thing. Then older folks about to go to bed closing their browsers and greeting the hidden windows like a continuation of their browsing experience.

Russia has evolved along with us on the Internet and I'd remind Mr. Krebs paraphrasing Freud, sometimes a Russian oligarch is just a Russian oligarch. It's possible that the Kremlin has hired these companies like everyone else, and a lot of shady people want to penetrate EU DNS defenses.

Fake camping sites with AI content whether its disinformation or deception or hallucination with no human proofreading, is a looming problem. Keep an eye on the prize, preventing old people from getting scammed.

People need more education in general to spot nefarious content, no matter who the state actor is. We don't want a repeat of the Alfa-Bank scam 'October Surprise' either. It relied on the gullibility of the Internet surfing public but DNS administrators should have seen through it and asked more questions.