Security News > 2021 > March > Hackers Control Perl.com Domain Months Before Hijack
The Perl.com domain was hijacked in January 2021, but hackers seemingly took control of it four months prior, in September 2020.
Serving articles about the Perl programming language since 1997 and managed by The Perl Foundation, the domain started pointing to a parked site at the end of January, with evidence suggesting connections to sites distributing malware.
The issue, some of those involved with maintaining the site said at the time, was related to an account hijack that resulted in an unknown party being able to grab the domain for ten years.
In a post on Sunday, Brian Foy, senior editor of Perl.com and author of several books on Perl, explains that the account hijack appears to have been an attack on the domain name registrar Network Solutions.
In December, the hackers transferred the domain to the BizCN registrar.
Although the domain was compromised in September, ICANN prohibits the transfer of a domain for 60 days following the updating of contact info.