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Subdomain Squatting

In a subdomain squatting attack, the attacker claims the namespace of the de-provisioned resource, effectively moving into the space you left vacant. In this case, they might scan your DNS entries for any dangling subdomains and register the (now abandoned) username example-blog on medium.com.

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