DNS Belgium Partners With APWG to Combat Internet Abuse

DNS Belgium, the company behind .BE domain name extension, announced a partnership with the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in order to combat Internet abuse.

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“In 2014, a total of 4,240 hacked .be websites were actively used for phishing or malware. Internet abuse is still on the rise. In late 2014, we became a member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in order to more efficiently combat such abuses.

There were more than 48.000 infections in total, as multiple URLs or sub domains of a certain domain name can be infected at once. In 69% of the cases, the abuse was related to malware, 31% was related to phishing. On our website, you can find more information on the different types of abuse.

DNS Belgium itself cannot act against the abuse of certain domain names. We do inform the registrant as much as possible about the dangers. This helps us to maintain a healthy and reliable .be zone.

As soon as a security firm provides us with a list of infected domain names, DNS Belgium will contact the registrant in question, who more often than not is not aware of any abuse. His domain name is being used by third parties for fraudulent intentions. It is the responsibility of the registrant to take the appropriate action. You will find here what steps you can take straight away.

As a sponsoring member of the APWG, we get access to its knowledge in the field of internet abuse. The APWG organises yearly e-crime events, with the purpose of training certain parties such as banks and police in the fight against malware. The APWG also aims to improve the collaboration between these parties.”