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ICANN Report on DNS Abuse

ICANN released a DNS Abuse Report based on data collected between October 2017 and January 2022. According to ICANN, over the reporting period, the total number of DNS breaches may have decreased. As for the nature of these attacks, the report also indicates that spamming occupies a substantial place before phishing, malware and botnet command-and-control domains.


© ICANN – Figure 4 – Distribution of security threat domains across threat types over time, The Last Four years in Retrospect: A Brief Review of DNS Abuse Trends, March 22, 2022
© ICANN – Figure 4 – Distribution of security threat domains across threat types over time, The Last Four years in Retrospect: A Brief Review of DNS Abuse Trends, March 22, 2022