Posts Tagged ‘Observation’
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Most new domain names are malicious. I am stunned by the simplicity and truth of that observation. Every day lots of new names are added to the global DNS, and most of them belong to scammers, spammers, e-criminals, and speculators.
Tags: Criminals, Global Dns, New Domain Names, Observation, Scammers, Simplicity, Speculators, Truth
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
New research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has found that up to 81% of domain names used for phishing are legitimate domains that have been hacked. More specifically, out of the 30,454 phishing domains under observation, only 5,591 domain names (18.5%) were registered by phishers according to APWG. The remaining small percentage of the domains used in phishing belonged to subdomain ...
Tags: Anti Phishing Working Group, Apwg, Domain Names, Domains, New Domain, Observation, Phishers, Phishing
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