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Phone scams cost Americans $12.5B in 2024. Discover how organized fraud operations use spoofing, smishing, and psychological manipulation—and what actually stops them.

Discover how digital risk protection (DRP) solutions can become predictive, powerful autonomous defenses to combat agentic AI threats.

Learn how domain takedown services protect your brand from phishing, PhaaS, and smishing with rapid detection, automated blocking, and permanent content removal.

Criminals are targeting students with fake job offers that turn them into unwitting money mules. Learn how these scams work, the risks involved, and how Netcraft’s research helps expose them.

In the January 2026 survey we received responses from 1,376,952,390 sites across 295,088,466 domains and 14,365,221 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 12.6 million sites, and a gain of 3.1 million domains and 392,631 web-facing computers. OpenResty experienced the largest gain of 10.6 million sites (+11.2%) this month, and now accoun...

With fraud losses hitting $12.5B in 2024, scams are more effective than ever. This deep dive explains the scam supply chain—and how to disrupt it at scale.

Phishing is a persistent threat many organizations face. Learn how to prevent phishing attacks on this helpful attack recovery guide from Netcraft.

Phishing is now industrialized. Learn how modern phishing takedown services use automation, AI, and global enforcement to stop impersonation attacks fast.

The “rn”→“m” homoglyph is still powering phishing via lookalike domains. See real examples across brands and how to detect and stop them.

In the December 2025 survey we received responses from 1,389,596,802 sites across 291,965,818 domains and 13,972,590 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 23.0 million sites and 3.0 million domains, and a decrease of 35,994 web-facing computers.