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.PW Surprisingly Pretty Popular with Phishers in China

Posted on the 13 January 2014 by Worldwide @thedomains

NiceNic.net put out a report that looked at phishing activity in China, very few .cn sites are involved in phishing and surprisingly there was a decent number of .pw sites being used.

Anti-Phishing Alliance of China(APAC) announced “December 2013 Anti-Phishing Sites Brief Report”.

According to the report:

APAC totally dealt with 168,835 phishing sites over the years and in Dec 2013, 5,681.

Below please find some diagrams and statistical data:

phishingsites

- See more at: http://nicenic.net/news/messview.php?ID=12796#sthash.T1sykyhc.dpuf

The chart below shows that .pw came in number 2 by extension

phisingsites 2


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