#dnsabuse — Public Fediverse posts

Malicious Actors Accounted for as much as 20% of New Domain Name Registrations in 2025

A new analysis by Interisle Consulting Group finds that cybercriminals registered a significant share of new domain name registrations in 2025, representing a substantial percentage of the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) market.

The study establishes that malicious actors purchased at least 10 percent of all newly registered gTLD domains in 2025, with projections indicating that the actual share may be closer to 20 percent.

#domainname #domainabuse #cybercrime #maliciousdomains #dnsabuse

https://interisle.substack.com/p/malicious-actors-accounted-for-as

Interisle Consulting Group has annually published landscape studies on the scope and distribution of phishing. We’ve used the same data sources so that our analyses would be longitudinally consistent. Today, we begin a new series by looking at phishing attacks and how phishers acquired name resources since May 2020.

#phishing #cyberrime #fraud #domainabuse #dnsabuse #cyberattack

https://open.substack.com/pub/interisle/p/phishing-in-the-2020s-intro

Spotlight: Impersonation phishing using exact match hostnames

Phishers have long embedded exact matches of brands in domain names that they register for phishing. Company, service, or product names in domains continue to deceive less technically savvy members of society. Phishers are increasingly using exact match strings to compose hostnames at free web sites for phishing.

For the period, impersonation attacks against two brands stood out: United States Postal Service (USPS) and Facebook. Looking closely at these two brands, we are able to illustrate how phishers employ these different naming methods.

https://www.cybercrimeinfocenter.org/phishing-trends-november-january-2024

#phishing #brandimpersonation
#domainnames
#domainabuse #dnsabuse

My interview with the #spamhausproject

Trends, policy and cheap TLDs - an interview with Dave Piscitello
https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/cybercrime/trends-policy-and-cheap-tlds-an-interview-with-dave-piscitello/

I've had the pleasure of working with the Spamhaus Team for nearly 2 decades. We collect their reputation data in our #cybercrimeinformationcenter along with a dozen other feeds.

We had a lively discussion about the findings from our October 2023 Cybercrime Supply Chain study. My interview augments our study findings. Hope you enjoy it.

#phishing #malware #spam #domainabuse #dnsabuse