Phishing Activity: Hosting Networks (ASNs)
Quarter over Quarter Comparison:
February 1, 2023 - April 30, 2023
For purposes of observing change over time, it is useful to compare measurements and metrics over successive reporting periods. Such comparisons illustrate whether phishing activities are increasing or decreasing, and where such changes are occurring. Such comparisons can identify hosting networks where phishing web sites or pages are concentrated and whether or not such concentration is persistent or atypical. Investigators or policy makers may focus on these hosting networks for deeper analyses.
In the table below, we use the measurement number of phishing attacks to compare the ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) for the November 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023 period to the ranking for the February 1, 2023 - April 30, 2023 period.
Ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) by Phishing Attacks, Quarter over Quarter (February to April 2023)
| IPv4 Addresses Assigned | Number of Phishing Attacks | ||||||||
| Rank | Hosting Provider | AS Number | November to January 2023 | February to April 2023 | November to January 2023 | February to April 2023 ▼ | |||
| 1 | — | Cloudflare, Inc. | 13335 | 2,473,216 | 2,531,584 | (+2%) | 72,764 | 67,197 | (-8%) |
| 2 | ▲ +91* | LG DACOM Corporation | 3786 | 8,907,776 | 11,598,080 | (+30%) | 139 | 21,697 | (+15,509%) |
| 3 | ▲ +4 | Fastly, Inc. | 54113 | 533,248 | 1,046,048 | (+96%) | 10,882 | 13,707 | (+26%) |
| 4 | ▲ +1 | Google LLC | 15169 | 15,370,496 | 11,992,832 | (-22%) | 20,804 | 12,602 | (-39%) |
| 5 | ▲ +17 | DediPath | 35913 | 328,960 | 282,624 | (-14%) | 2,750 | 10,506 | (+282%) |
| 6 | N/R** | Weebly, Inc. | 27647 | 2,048 | 2,048 | (0%) | 9,924 | 9,031 | (-9%) |
| 7 | ▲ +1 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 16509 | 44,528,640 | 44,495,872 | (-0%) | 10,548 | 7,515 | (-29%) |
| 8 | N/R | Netminders Server Hosting | 7040 | 14,848 | 29,952 | (+102%) | 37 | 6,830 | (+18,359%) |
| 9 | ▼ -5 | M247 Ltd | 9009 | 1,112,832 | 1,192,704 | (+7%) | 25,472 | 6,677 | (-74%) |
| 10 | N/R | Hostinger International Limited | 204915 | 768 | 768 | (0%) | 3,275 | 4,912 | (+50%) |
| 11 | ▲ +1 | Google LLC | 396982 | 24,654,080 | 22,770,944 | (-8%) | 6,566 | 4,739 | (-28%) |
| 12 | ▼ -3 | Unified Layer | 46606 | 804,608 | 811,520 | (+1%) | 9,997 | 4,587 | (-54%) |
| 13 | ▲ +5 | Network Solutions, LLC | 19871 | 259,072 | 266,496 | (+3%) | 3,413 | 3,463 | (+1%) |
| 14 | N/R | QuadraNet Enterprises LLC | 64270 | 20,224 | 20,224 | (0%) | 6,359 | 3,405 | (-46%) |
| 15 | ▼ -5 | DigitalOcean, LLC | 14061 | 2,808,576 | 2,831,104 | (+1%) | 8,924 | 3,288 | (-63%) |
| 16 | ▼ -10 | Microsoft Corporation | 8075 | 53,061,888 | 53,413,376 | (+1%) | 17,405 | 3,281 | (-81%) |
| 17 | ▼ -3 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 14618 | 16,429,568 | 16,449,024 | (0%) | 3,862 | 3,209 | (-17%) |
| 18 | ▲ +10 | ColoCrossing | 36352 | 784,640 | 785,920 | (0%) | 1,318 | 2,992 | (+127%) |
| 19 | ▲ +10 | WholeSale Internet, Inc. | 32097 | 96,768 | 211,456 | (+119%) | 1,208 | 2,965 | (+145%) |
| 20 | N/R | Protocol Labs | 40680 | 1,024 | 1,024 | (0%) | 663 | 2,515 | (+279%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
** Indicates not ranked in prior quarter; either number of addresses or number of phishing attacks did not meet minimum threshold for ranking
In the table below, we use the metric phishing attack score to compare the ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) for the November 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023 period to the ranking for the February 1, 2023 - April 30, 2023 period.
Ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) by Phishing Attack Score, Quarter over Quarter (February to April 2023)
Hosting Providers with a minimum of 50,000 addresses assigned to the ASN and 25 phishing attacks
| IPv4 Addresses Assigned | Phishing Attack Score | ||||||||
| Rank | Hosting Provider | AS Number | November to January 2023 | February to April 2023 | November to January 2023 | February to April 2023 ▼ | |||
| 1 | ▲ +17* | DediPath | 35913 | 328,960 | 282,624 | (-14%) | 84 | 372 | (+345%) |
| 2 | ▲ +7 | Nocix, LLC | 33387 | 58,880 | 67,328 | (+14%) | 198 | 328 | (+65%) |
| 3 | ▼ -1 | Namecheap, Inc. | 22612 | 107,776 | 74,432 | (-31%) | 574 | 312 | (-46%) |
| 4 | ▲ +1 | Cloudflare, Inc. | 13335 | 2,473,216 | 2,531,584 | (+2%) | 294 | 265 | (-10%) |
| 5 | ▲ +84 | Gigabit Hosting Sdn Bhd | 55720 | 86,016 | 86,272 | (0%) | 8 | 218 | (+2,584%) |
| 6 | ▲ +13 | Dreamscape Networks PTY LTD | 38719 | 73,728 | 82,944 | (+13%) | 82 | 143 | (+73%) |
| 7 | ▼ -1 | Hostinger International Limited | 47583 | 152,320 | 166,400 | (+9%) | 235 | 141 | (-40%) |
| 8 | ▲ +4 | WholeSale Internet, Inc. | 32097 | 96,768 | 211,456 | (+119%) | 125 | 140 | (+12%) |
| 9 | ▼ -1 | Fastly, Inc. | 54113 | 533,248 | 1,046,048 | (+96%) | 204 | 131 | (-36%) |
| 10 | — | Network Solutions, LLC | 19871 | 259,072 | 266,496 | (+3%) | 132 | 130 | (-1%) |
| 11 | N/R** | Advania Island ehf | 50613 | 20,736 | 86,016 | (+315%) | 55 | 102 | (+83%) |
| 12 | ▲ +12 | TimeWeb Ltd. | 9123 | 68,352 | 76,288 | (+12%) | 66 | 93 | (+40%) |
| 13 | ▲ +1 | FranTech Solutions | 53667 | 62,720 | 76,032 | (+21%) | 106 | 83 | (-22%) |
| 14 | ▼ -3 | "Domain names registrar REG.RU", Ltd | 197695 | 89,600 | 84,224 | (-6%) | 130 | 82 | (-37%) |
| 15 | N/R | Infolink Global Corporation | 15083 | 47,872 | 51,200 | (+7%) | 27 | 67 | (+146%) |
| 16 | — | Tier.Net Technologies LLC | 397423 | 56,320 | 58,112 | (+3%) | 99 | 63 | (-37%) |
| 17 | ▲ +9 | UCLOUD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED | 135377 | 145,152 | 149,245 | (+3%) | 56 | 58 | (+3%) |
| 18 | ▼ -5 | Unified Layer | 46606 | 804,608 | 811,520 | (+1%) | 124 | 57 | (-55%) |
| 19 | ▼ -12 | M247 Ltd | 9009 | 1,112,832 | 1,192,704 | (+7%) | 229 | 56 | (-76%) |
| 20 | ▼ -19 | A2 Hosting, Inc. | 55293 | 129,536 | 126,720 | (-2%) | 2,240 | 49 | (-98%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
** Indicates not ranked in prior quarter; either number of addresses or number of phishing attacks did not meet minimum threshold for ranking
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