NEW: ICANN Expands DNSTICR to Monitor Terms Related to Russia-Ukraine War
When global events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, capture the world’s concern and human desire to help, bad actors lurk behind the scenes, seeking innovative ways to confuse, distract, and steal from the unsuspecting.
In response to these security threats, ICANN organization, through its Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), developed the Domain Name Security Threat Information Collection and Reporting (DNSTICR) system to report COVID-19-related domain name system (DNS) security threats to the registrar responsible for the domains in question. DNSTICR is a robust, linguistically comprehensive, reliable and replicable system designed to specifically search for phishing or malware domain names that match with a set of COVID-related keywords.
