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APWG Phishing Report Reveals Crimeware Increase

May 5, 2015 by Michele Neylon

The APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) has released their report for Q4 of 2014. It makes for fairly depressing ready, as you’d expect, but it’s worth taking the time to have a look over it.

So which TLDs are most (ab)used in phishing and malware attacks?

It’s hardly surprising that .com is the most (ab)used (46%) – it’s also the most popular domain extension. What is a little more interesting is that .br domain names account for only 1% of domains registered worldwide, yet 3% of domains used in phishing / malware.

Here’s a graphic to show it all in a bit more detail:

apwg-phishing-tld-q4-2014

You can grab the full report here (PDF)

 

Filed Under: Domains, phishing, registries, security, spam Tagged With: Anti-Phishing Working Group, Domain name, Domain Name System, icann, phishing, Top-level domain

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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