[Aftld-members] [cctldcommunity] ICANN Publishes DNS Abuse Trends

[Barrack Otieno]

Dear Members,

This might be of interest.


ICANN PUBLISHES DNS ABUSE TRENDS

22 March 2022

Blog post by Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Principal Security, Stability &
Resiliency Specialist

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-publishes-dns-abuse-trends-22-03-2022-en


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  DNS abuse is one of the most important discussions for the ICANN
community to have and ICANN is the right place to discuss issues related
to technical abuse. However, depending on what you mean by DNS abuse,
some types may not fall within ICANN's responsibility as the technical
coordinator of the DNS. ICANN is not the Internet's content police.
Instead, ICANN org has a program focused on DNS security threats [1],
which adhere to ICANN's technical role and capabilities.

  To facilitate and inform ICANN community discussions, ICANN publishes
trends related to DNS security threat concentrations through the Domain
Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) project, based on security threat
domains listed in Reputation Block Lists (RBLs). DAAR tracks security
threat data for phishing, malware, botnet command and control domains
and spam. To learn more about the DAAR project click here [2].

  Using DAAR data, ICANN recently published a report [3] on DNS abuse. In
contrast to many existing industry white papers and general discussions
published on DNS abuse, this new report relies on four years of data.
Typically, similar studies use data with a much shorter time span such
as half a year. As a result, the report demonstrates that when
discussing DNS abuse trends in general, we should be cautious because
depending on the question asked, the data used, and the data timeframe,
we will receive different results.

  No one organization or data provider has a comprehensive overview of
all security threats that are listed on the Internet. Nonetheless,
ICANN's DAAR datasets are another source of reliable and unbiased data
and another source of possible research.

Best regards,

Joke Braeken

joke.braeken at icann.org



Links:
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[1] https://www.icann.org/dns-security-threat
[2] https://www.icann.org/octo-ssr/daar
[3] 
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/last-four-years-retrospect-brief-review-dns-abuse-trends-22mar22-en.pdf
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Barrack Otieno

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