Brian Krebs (@briankrebs) recently reported that sued by Meta, registry operator Freenom halted domain registrations.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/sued-by-meta-freenom-halts-domain-registrations/
According to Krebs, Meta alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.
Meta’s actions come as no surprise to us.
The #cybercrimeinfocenter has collected phishing data since May 2020. Freenom’s commercialized ccTLDs have repeatedly appeared among the TLDs with the most phishing domains and highest phishing scores.
While brands and individuals of victims of phishing attacks are the most obvious harmed parties, other parties such as hosting operators received collateral damage from phishing attacks. In my post I show that while brands and individuals of victims of phishing attacks are the most obvious harmed parties, other parties such as hosting operators received collateral damage from phishing attacks as well.
https://www.cybercrimeinfocenter.org/collateral-damage-from-freenom-phishing-attacks