Our team just published new research on identifying URL shortening services in the wild! Accurately recognizing these services helps avoid misattribution when short URLs show up in phishing reports. This reduces unnecessary investigations for registrars and registries and helps keep mitigation efforts focused on the malicious destination URLs.
More details in our paper: https://korlabs.io/documents/7/eCrime_2025_URL_shorteners.pdf
Our team just published new research on identifying URL shortening services in the wild! Accurately recognizing these services helps avoid misattribution when short URLs show up in phishing reports. This reduces unnecessary investigations for registrars and registries and helps keep mitigation efforts focused on the malicious destination URLs. More details in our paper: https://korlabs.io/documents/7/eCrime_2025_URL_shorteners.pdf
We are attending ACM CCS 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan to present our paper on the driving factors behind phishing domain registrations. This work builds on the INFERMAL report and investigates the preferences of malicious actors when registering domain names - an important step towards understanding and mitigating DNS abuse. If you are attending CCS, feel free to stop by and say hello.You can read the paper here: https://korlabs.io/documents/6/ccs2025-infermal.pdf
We will be giving a webinar on Extended DNS Errors (EDE) as part of the ICANN Technical Training Europe series. The webinar will cover key aspects of this recently proposed standard and present our research on EDE deployment in the wild.When: September 10, 2025, 12:00–12:45 UTCYou can register for the event here.