Fake pharmacies sell prescription-only drugs without a license and without requiring a valid prescription from a doctor. The storefronts are advertised to consumers through web searches, social media, and unsolicited spam emails. As you might expect, many of these platforms…
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May 2024 Web Server Survey
In the May 2024 survey we received responses from 1,097,398,145 sites across 268,137,699 domains and 12,898,459 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 4.4 million sites, 202,938 domains, and 26,168 web-facing computers. Cloudflare experienced the largest gain of 4.4 million…
Netcraft Announces New AI-Powered Innovations to Disrupt and Expose Criminal Financial Infrastructure
Netcraft, the global leader in digital risk protection and threat intelligence, announced its new Conversational Scam Intelligence platform at RSAC in San Francisco, which builds on Netcraft’s intentional approach to using AI to stay ahead of criminals and protect client…
RSA Conference 2024 – Where it all started and where to find our team
On Monday 6th May, Netcraft will be heading to San Francisco along with thousands of other cyber security professionals for RSA Conference 2024. If you’re attending too, we thought we’d share a few insights into how it all started. Use…
April 2024 Web Server Survey
In the April 2024 survey we received responses from 1,092,963,063 sites across 267,934,761 domains and 12,872,291 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 2.8 million sites, a loss of 3.9 million domains, and a gain of 244,716 web-facing computers. OpenResty…
Autodesk hosting PDF files used in Microsoft phishing attacks
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 convincing than normal, as it uses compromised email accounts to find and…
The AI Gold Rush: ChatGPT and OpenAI targeted in AI-themed investment scams
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 in artificial intelligence (AI) following the…
The AI Gold Rush: ChatGPT and OpenAI targeted in AI-themed investment scams
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 in artificial intelligence (AI) following the…
UN? FBI? World Bank? Deepfake police chief used for compensation scam video
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 Generative AI (GenAI) promise to make many people more…
Out of the shadows – ’darcula’ iMessage and RCS smishing attacks target USPS and global postal services
Chinese-language Phishing-as-a-Service platform ‘darcula’ targets organizations in 100+ countries with sophisticated techniques using more than 20,000 phishing domains ‘darcula’ [sic] is a new, sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform used on more than 20,000 phishing domains that provide cyber criminals with easy…