Seriously? 17,500 Phishing Domains. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Right, so some script kiddies – and let’s be real, it’s *always* script kiddies – have launched a massive phishing campaign using over seventeen thousand domains. Seventeen THOUSAND. Targeting just 316 brands. Apparently, they think people are still stupid enough to fall for this crap in 2025.

It’s a “PhaaS” operation – Phishing-as-a-Service, because apparently building your own malicious infrastructure is too hard. They’re hitting victims in 74 countries, so it’s not just some localized annoyance; this is global idiocy on display. The usual suspects are involved: banking, social media, tech companies… the low-hanging fruit for these morons.

Cloudflare blocked most of it (thank god for *someone* doing their job), but honestly? The fact that this even got off the ground is infuriating. They’re using techniques like typosquatting and punycode to try and trick people, which means they’re relying on laziness and ignorance. And you know what? It probably works. A lot.

The article mentions a bunch of brands getting hammered – Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon… the usual targets. They’ve got a list if you want to see how thoroughly screwed your users are. Don’t bother asking me for preventative measures; use common sense and don’t click on links from random emails. It’s not rocket science.

Honestly, I’m starting to think humanity deserves whatever they get.

Read the full, depressing story here

Related Anecdote (Because I Feel Like Venting)

I once had to debug a system where users were routinely getting phished because they insisted on using “password” as their password and then reusing it everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I spent three days rebuilding authentication protocols, only for them to get compromised again the next week. I swear, sometimes I think I’m maintaining systems *for* the attackers.

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