Key Data Are you in the market for a new job? Talent scouts aren’t the only ones aggressively recruiting. Netcraft has observed a recent spike in recruitment scams, uncovering significant impact from three unique adversaries, each leveraging different tactics to target job seekers: Threat actor #1 – Impersonates employers in...

In the April 2025 survey we received responses from 1,218,287,328 sites across 277,498,967 domains and 13,441,067 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 20.6 million sites, 1.9 million domains, and 38,345 web-facing computers. nginx experienced the largest gain of 8.0 million sites (+3.25%) this month, and now accounts for 20.8%...

Key Data Netcraft researchers have observed the cybercriminals behind darcula, the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, have released a new update to their darcula-suite, accelerating phishing kit creation with AI, confirming the use of AI to more quickly create high-quality, customized phishing kits. We first covered darcula’s platform, which enables widespread and...

Threat actors immediately target new Truth Social users — Netcraft received more than 30 messages within hours of creating an account.