[APRALO-Policy] Phishing report
Gopal Tadepalli
gopal.tadepalli at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 03:48:22 UTC 2021
Thank you Dr. Maureen Hilyard for the post in the trace.
It may be useful to study this report in conjunction with "my choice"
paper titled:
The Psychology of Internet Fraud Victimisation: a Systematic Review
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology Vol. 34, Pp 231–245, 2019
https://d-nb.info/1202645739/34
Sincerely,
Gopal T V
0 9840121302https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545https://www.facebook.com/gopal.tadepalli
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Dr. T V Gopal
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Anna University
Chennai - 600 025, INDIA
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On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 9:40 PM Maureen Hilyard via Apralo-policy <
apralo-policy at icann.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> FYI - A new report is out about Phishing (attacks that steal user data) :
> https://interisle.net/PhishingLandscape2021.html
>
>
>
> Some key takeaways from the report:
>
> - *Most phishing is concentrated at small numbers of domain
> registrars, domain registries, and hosting providers.* 69% of the
> domains used for phishing were registered in 10 Top-level Domains and 69%
> were registered through just 10 registrars.
> - *Phishing attacks are disproportionately concentrated in new gTLDs
> (nTLDs).* While the new TLDs' market share decreased during our yearly
> reporting period, phishing among the new TLDs has increased.
> - *Phishing domain registrations in some TLDs are overwhelmingly
> dominated by a small number of registrars.* In some cases, 90% or more
> of the malicious domains in a TLD were registered through one gTLD
> registrar.
> - *41% of all phishing attacks occurred at just ten hosting providers.* We
> identified 4,110 hosting networks (ASNs) where phishing web sites were
> reported. 28% of all phishing attacks occurred on just four hosting
> networks.
> - *Phishers targeted 1,804 businesses or organizations during the 1
> May 2020 to 30 April 2021 period.* The top 10 brands targeted over the
> course of our annual period account for 46% of the reported phishing
> attacks.
> - *When phishers register domains, they tend to use them quickly.* 57%
> of domains reported for phishing were used within 14 days following
> registration and more than half of those were used within 48 hours.
>
>
> Maureen
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