Category Archives: VPS SERVER

Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.tk, .cf and .gq) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduction in the number of websites hosted by Cloudflare. The disappearance of these websites was spotted during our monthly Web Server Survey and represents a 98.7% drop from the… Read More »

Online investment scams: Inside a fake trading platform

Online investment scams are a global, growing, and uniquely pernicious threat. In newly released data, the Federal Trade Commission attributed more than $4.6 billion of US fraud losses in 2023 to investment scams, more than any other fraud category, and a 21% increase in 2022. The FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report notes that investment scams… Read More »

February 2024 Web Server Survey

In the February 2024 survey we received responses from 1,086,916,398 sites across 271,141,726 domains and 12,489,253 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 7.8 million sites, 694,270 domains, and 151,543 web-facing computers. OpenResty made the largest gain of 4.7 million sites (+4.79%) this month. It now accounts for 9.49% (+0.37pp) of sites seen by Netcraft.… Read More »

Phishception – SendGrid is abused to host phishing attacks impersonating itself

Netcraft has recently observed that criminals abused SendGrid’s services to launch a phishing campaign impersonating SendGrid itself. The well-known provider, now owned by Twillio, makes sending emails at scale simple and flexible. In addition to scale, the promise of high deliverability and feature-rich tools make Sendgrid a sought-after service for legitimate businesses and a likely… Read More »

PHP-less phishing kits that can run on any website

Criminals can now deploy phishing sites on any type of web server, even when commonly used server-side technologies such as PHP are not supported. Phishing kits are predominantly implemented in PHP, as this provides the server-side functionality required to store and transmit stolen credentials without publicly revealing where they are being sent. PHP is a… Read More »

January 2024 Web Server Survey

In the January 2024 survey we received responses from 1,079,154,539 sites across 270,447,456 domains and 12,337,710 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 8.9 million sites, a gain of 1.2 million domains, and a loss of 17,900 web-facing computers. nginx saw the largest increase of 5.6 million sites (+2.29%) this month. Its market share now… Read More »

Netcraft Named Winner of Coveted Top InfoSec Innovator Award for 2023

Cybercrime Detection, Disruption, Takedown Firm Wins Editor’s Choice Cybersecurity Company SALT LAKE CITY and LONDON – October 26, 2023 – Netcraft, the global leader in cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns, announced today it has been named the winner of the “Editor’s Choice Cybersecurity Company” award from Cyber Defense Magazine, the industry’s leading electronic information security… Read More »

October 2023 Web Server Survey

In the October 2023 survey we received responses from 1,093,294,946 sites across 267,962,271 domains and 12,371,536 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 8.3 million sites, 13.2 million domains, and 96,682 web-facing computers. The largest gains this month came from Apache, which gained 19.6 million sites (+8.51%), OpenResty, which gained 5.7 million domains (+14.9%), and… Read More »