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Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice

July 23, 2024 admin 0 Comments .top, A Little Sunshine, Anti-Phishing Working Group, dave piscitello, interisle consulting group, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, jiangsu bangning science & technology co. ltd, Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:41:51 +0000

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its license to sell domains. The warning comes amid the release of new findings that .top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “.com.”

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Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

May 26, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, awpg ecrime exchange, dave piscitello, freenom, interisle consulting group, Mastodon, meta, Namecheap, openphish, phishtank, spamhaus

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:37:15 +0000

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.