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AUTODESK IS HOSTING MALICIOUS PDF FILES THAT LEAD PHISHING ATTACK VICTIMS TO HAVE THEIR MICROSOFT LOGIN CREDENTIALS STOLEN. The elaborate phishing campaign behind these attacks is much more con...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/autodesk-hosting-pdf-files-used-in-microsoft-phishing-attacks/

INVESTMENT SCAMS AND AI – A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN?   Online investment scams are a big money spinner for criminals, accounting for $4.6B of losses in the US . With the explosion of interest i...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/chatgpt-targeted-in-ai-themed-investment-scams/

ADVANCE FEE FRAUD CAMPAIGNS ARE USING GENERATIVE AI IN BOTH TEXT AND VIDEO TO SPEED UP RESPONSES, EVADE FILTERS, AND MAKE SCAMS MORE CONVINCING. Large Language Models and other forms of Generat...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/fbi-worldbank-deepfake-scam-analysis/

CHINESE-LANGUAGE PHISHING-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORM ‘DARCULA’ TARGETS ORGANIZATIONS IN 100+ COUNTRIES WITH SOPHISTICATED TECHNIQUES USING MORE THAN 20,000 PHISHING DOMAINS   ‘darcula’ is...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/darcula-smishing-attacks-target-usps-and-global-postal-services/

In the MARCH 2024 survey we received responses from 1,090,117,902 sites across 271,804,260 domains and 12,627,575 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 3.2 million sites, 662,534 dom...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/march-2024-web-server-survey/

A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.TK, .CF and .GQ) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduction in the number of websites hosted ...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/cloudflare-loses-22-of-its-domains-in-freenom-tk-shutdown/

Online investment scams are a global , growing , and uniquely pernicious threat. In newly released data , the Federal Trade Commission attributed more than $4.6 billion of US fraud losses in 2023...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/inside-a-fake-trading-platform/

AHEAD OF THE EU’S DIGITAL MARKET ACT FORCING APPLE’S HAND TO PERMIT ALTERNATIVE APP DOWNLOAD OPTIONS, IS THE AMOUNT OF MALWARE IN THE EXISTING GREY-MARKET FOR SIDELOADING IPHONE APPS A PORTEN...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/apple-dma-app-store-malware-review/

In the FEBRUARY 2024 survey we received responses from 1,086,916,398 sites across 271,141,726 domains and 12,489,253 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 7.8 million sites, 694,270 ...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/february-2024-web-server-survey/

Netcraft has recently observed that criminals abused SendGrid’s services to launch a phishing campaign impersonating SendGrid itself. The well-known provider, now owned by Twilio, makes sending...

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/popular-email-platform-used-to-impersonate-itself/