For staging a phishing website, cybercriminals can choose between using legitimate yet compromised domain names, registering their own domains, and misusing free web hosting services . The key to detect and mitigate these cybersecurity threats at the earliest possible time is to understand how prevalent each of these scenarios is. IT service company PhishLabs analyzed over a hundred thousand phishing websites to determine how many of those utilized compromised domains, domain names registered with malicious intent, or free website hosting solutions. Around 38% of the websites misused free hosting or utilized compromised domains, whereas about one-quarter of them used domain names registered with the intent to cause harm. It is potentially tricky to determine whether one of these sites utilizes a compromised or malicious domain at a level that is enough to correctly represent the modern phishing landscape. Research regarding phishing has mainly used the following elements. ...
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