All, Resending this via Matthias request... Derek, Jacque and all, This is a very good report. Our independant survey indicated that there were over 68k DN's used for phishing purposes in 2007 all of which DNS were mis-configured. We were a bit more exact in whom the top 10 phishers were. The top 5 are as follows: Yahoo.com, Gmail.com, googlemail.com, mac.com, yahoo.co.uk, google.com, live.com, live.ru, ATT.net, and wikipedia.com. Currently most of our members are blocking/filtering these DN's and their associated IP addresses, and will continue to do so until or unless those whom are responsible for these phishiers and their Sr. managment are prosecuted to the fullist extent of the law. -----Original Message-----
From: Derek Smythe <derek@aa419.org> Sent: Jun 4, 2008 8:07 AM To: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] [Fwd: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - released by Anti Phishing Working Group]
Hi Jacqueline and all
Jacqueline, thank you posting this brilliant document.
Indeed many of the observations in this document highlights some serious issues.
I am sure the publishers would not mind me saying this; many of these identical issues are not only found in phishing scams, but also in advance fee fraud/419 scams, escrow scams, job/money mule scams and non-existent goods scams and other criminal enterprise.
Many of the above scams at different levels of sophistication, but sooner or later we note the same trends for most of them, the general targets being unsuspecting other internet users and service providers.
This document is a definite MUST read for anyone involved in domain names or hosting in any form, more so their staff and/or agents dealing with fraud issues.
Brilliant!
Regards
Derek http://www.aa419.org
Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
FYI Jacqueline
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - released by Anti Phishing Working Group Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:30:56 -0700
Dear all,
The Antiphishing Working Group (APWG) has released the results of a survey on "Global Domain Name Use and Trends in 2007" - it's a study on how phishers use domain names and to what purposes.
The study describes an analysis that the APWG did of a comprehensive database of the phishing that took place in 2007. Basing on this, the APWG has defined the ways that phishers use domain names in their attacks.
The study is available at: http://www.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey2007.pdf
Kind regards,
Gabi / ccNSO Secretariat
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