Breaking Down Phishing Site TLDs and Certificate Abuse in Q1
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Cybercriminals continue to heavily abuse domains to launch phishing attacks. PhishLabs’ analysis of Q1 phishing attacks has found that:
- 96% used Legacy Generic (gTLD) or Country Code (ccTLD) Top-level Domains
- Almost 83% abused HTTPS
- Domain Validated (DV) Certificates were used 94.5% of the time
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