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#Phishing attacks are ramping up, and the most popular brands are in the crosshairs. We had released a deep dive into the DNS artifacts connected to the top 20 most phished brands of 2024. Want to know what we uncovered? Get a low down here: https://lnkd.in/duAZK3ft #cybersecurity #threatintelligence

The Most Phished Brands of 2024 in the DNS Spotlight

The Most Phished Brands of 2024 in the DNS Spotlight

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Theo Geurts

CIPP/E Privacy & GRC Officer at Realtime Register B.V.

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What a weird article. 3,120 branded domains, 12 of which turned out to be malicious. That sounds pretty low. Reading further: Our bulk WHOIS lookup for the 20 most phished brands revealed that telegram[.]org and sparkasse[.]de had redacted WHOIS records, which meant exclusion from further investigation. We would not be able to determine which telegram- and sparkasse-containing domains could be publicly attributed to Telegram and the Sparkasse Financial Group. I mean that is kinda of obvious, right? Most data is redacted due to GDPR. And basically, you have two types of trademark infringers. The ones that are poorly educated and do not do real harm. And then you have the criminals who got awesome OPSEC so even if that data is not redacted it will not help much. Plus they use brands as a lure, which is somewhat expected when it comes to criminals. And why does redacted WHOIS data mean exclusion from further investigation? There are so many other data points that could warrant an investigation and provide evidence. When you look at Telegram and Sparkasse phishing, which is rather rampant it is pretty easy to reverse search phishing and when it comes to Sparkasse we are talking 10.000+ domains.

Cool. IMO, the most phished brand in 2024 is definitely USPS.

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