#dnsabuse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dnsabuse, aggregated by home.social.
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Phishing Landscape 2026 – Summary Findings
In previous years, Interisle published comprehensive annual reports on phishing. This year, we’re taking a different approach and showing just the significant results of our analysis as a series of posts. Our fall study will include additional insights, findings and recommendations.
In this first post in the series, we look at the key results and compare them to those of the previous year.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-landscape-2026-summary-findings
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Phishing Landscape 2026 – Summary Findings
In previous years, Interisle published comprehensive annual reports on phishing. This year, we’re taking a different approach and showing just the significant results of our analysis as a series of posts. Our fall study will include additional insights, findings and recommendations.
In this first post in the series, we look at the key results and compare them to those of the previous year.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-landscape-2026-summary-findings
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Allowlisting: Exception Handling for Blocked TLDs
In this article, we discuss how to deal with blocklisting exception cases by using selective allowlisting to complement generalized blocklisting as part of an incident response.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/allowlisting-exception-handling-for
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How to Protect Against Phishy Top-level Domains, Part 2
In a previous article, we explained that risk-averse organizations routinely adopt TLD blocking as a defense against cyber-attacks.
We EMPHASIZED why this is a last resort measure and offered examples of TLDs that were persistently associated with major phishing and scam attacks in CY2025. We also describe how to make an informed TLD blocking decision.
In our earlier post, we explained how organizations or individuals could use Cisco’s OpenDNS service to adopt TLD blocking. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how NextDNS could be used to block TLDs.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-against-phishy-top-b41
#phishing #cybercrime #blocklisting #tld #domainnames #dnsabuse
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How to Protect Against Phishy Top-level Domains, Part 2
In a previous article, we explained that risk-averse organizations routinely adopt TLD blocking as a defense against cyber-attacks.
We EMPHASIZED why this is a last resort measure and offered examples of TLDs that were persistently associated with major phishing and scam attacks in CY2025. We also describe how to make an informed TLD blocking decision.
In our earlier post, we explained how organizations or individuals could use Cisco’s OpenDNS service to adopt TLD blocking. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how NextDNS could be used to block TLDs.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-against-phishy-top-b41
#phishing #cybercrime #blocklisting #tld #domainnames #dnsabuse
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Phishing in the 2020s: Phishing Across the Global Name Space
For our phishing landscape reports, we study where phishers go to acquire domain names for their attacks. Today's segment of our Phishing in the 2020s series examines the global domain name space to see whether phishers have preferentially exploited popularly recognized categories of Top-level domains (TLDs) each study period.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-in-the-2020s-phishing-across
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Phishing in the 2020s: Phishing Across the Global Name Space
For our phishing landscape reports, we study where phishers go to acquire domain names for their attacks. Today's segment of our Phishing in the 2020s series examines the global domain name space to see whether phishers have preferentially exploited popularly recognized categories of Top-level domains (TLDs) each study period.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-in-the-2020s-phishing-across
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MIT Technology Review:
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
I'm quoted in an article by Jacob Judah that reviews the scandalous history of the dot TK registry.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/02/1082798/tiny-pacific-island-global-capital-cybercrime/
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MIT Technology Review:
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
I'm quoted in an article by Jacob Judah that reviews the scandalous history of the dot TK registry.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/02/1082798/tiny-pacific-island-global-capital-cybercrime/
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Gabon government takes GA TLD from Freenom
From the announcement,
Gabon's national infrastructure agency estimates that there are currently over 7M delegated domain names in .GA.
BUT.. several million domain names will be deleted as the
previous operator has not provided the data that concern them.Most of these are likely spam or phishing domains.
One down. Four to go:-)
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Gabon government takes GA TLD from Freenom
From the announcement,
Gabon's national infrastructure agency estimates that there are currently over 7M delegated domain names in .GA.
BUT.. several million domain names will be deleted as the
previous operator has not provided the data that concern them.Most of these are likely spam or phishing domains.
One down. Four to go:-)
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What better title could you compose about Freenom commercialized ccTLDs than.
The sewer of the internet runs through Amsterdam and Tokelau. 'Domains that are given away for free attract misery'
(Note: mentions @briankrebs article and an EC report that quotes stats from our Interisle 2021 phishing study)
Lawsuits against gTLDs and registrars may be a hot topic at the upcoming ICANN meeting.
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What better title could you compose about Freenom commercialized ccTLDs than.
The sewer of the internet runs through Amsterdam and Tokelau. 'Domains that are given away for free attract misery'
(Note: mentions @briankrebs article and an EC report that quotes stats from our Interisle 2021 phishing study)
Lawsuits against gTLDs and registrars may be a hot topic at the upcoming ICANN meeting.