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US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Krebs on Security

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) US phishing domains.

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Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

Krebs on Security

for Germany — which has a far larger market share of domain name registrations than.US — have very low levels of abuse, including phishing and malware,” Marks told KrebsOnSecurity. domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) . “Even very large ccTLDs, like.de

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