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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

December 3, 2024 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and mobile anti-abuse working group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, coalition against unsolicited commercial email, icann, interisle consulting, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, john levine, Latest Warnings, malware, messaging, new gtlds, phishing, Spam, The Coming Storm, u.s. postal service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.