Phishers love new TLDs like .shop, .top, and .xyz

by James Pearson | Dec 3, 2024 | @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, ICANN, Interisle Consulting, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, John Levine, Latest Warnings, malware, Messaging, new gTLDs, News, phishing, spam, The Coming Storm, U.S. Postal Service

Phishing attacks surged nearly 40% in the past year, with new TLDs like .shop, .top, and .xyz favored by scammers for their low costs and minimal registration requirements.