Security News > 2017 > June > Criminalization of DNS for phishing continues to advance (Help Net Security)

Cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, by registering more and more domain names, rather using web servers and domains they have hacked into. These “malicious domain registrations” accounted for half of all the domain names used for phishing in 2016, according to APWG. A new global phishing survey from APWG documents that in 2016 there were at least 255,065 unique phishing attacks worldwide – an all-time high. Of the 195,475 domains used for phishing, … More →

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