What is going on?
Since 2020, criminal groups from Vietnam have re-registered domain names and set up forwarding services for such domains to obtain social media credentials and more.
What is the size?
Our conservative estimate is that these criminals re-register around 50.000 domain names each week since 2020.
Why is it a problem?
They mostly use stolen credit cards to pay for these domain names, but we have witnessed other forms of payment fraud.
What is the impact on a reseller or registrar?
We have seen registrars and resellers incur massive financial losses.
Sometimes, we see resellers or registars …
Recently we added the ScamAdviser feed to our DNS Abuse Monitoring system. Based on the input and experience from our customers, I thought it would be helpful to cover a few items.
ScamAdviser is a reputation-based feed that differs from the Google Safety Browsing feed. If Google marks a domain name as malicious, it is no longer accessible as many browsers will now warn internet users not to visit the website.
ScamAdviser will inform you if the reputation of the domain name is poor. Of course, a lousy score depends on many factors, and ScamAdviser uses plenty. But a poor …
Last month, Realtime Register partnered with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) to expand the Realtime Register Insights Domain Abuse Platform capabilities.
At Realtime Register, we have been collecting abuse/intelligence feeds like Pokémon this year. By adding the GCA Domain Trust Feed we are now up to 72 feeds. The information gathered we make available to our resellers, providing them with deep insight into how criminals are using their services.
However, the Domain Trust Feed is not just a feed; it is much more.
Let’s get technical
The GCA uses the Quad9 feed. Quad9 protects users from accessing known malicious websites, …
