news Hackers cybersquatting on hundreds of UK bank domains

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According to research by DomainTools, a DNS-based cyber threat intelligence firm, it found 324 registered domains using the trademarked names of five of the UK’s top high street banks – namely Barclays, HSBC, Natwest, Lloyds and Standard Chartered. Domains masquerading as legitimate UK bank websites are often used by hackers to trick customers into handing over personal details or login information.

The tricks include phishing email campaigns, pay per click ads (often for competitors’ services), for-profit survey sites and affiliate program abuse, or more nefarious content like ransomware and drive-by download campaigns...

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[consumers]

So DomainTools is analyzing the data they took from the whois databases? Some of the people who started DomainTools were involved in that massive cyberquatting lawsuit for registering all those Verizon typos so they must be experts on these issues.