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Craig Hale

Experts flag a huge amount of cyberattacks coming from this unexpected domain

How to prevent phishing attacks.
  • Experts observe a 19x quarter-over-quarter rise in .es usage for malicious campaigns
  • 99% were credential phishing attacks, with 1% relating to remote access trojans
  • Microsoft was by far the most commonly impersonated brand

Cybersecurity experts from Cofense have revealed a 19x increase in malicious campaigns using .es domains between Q4 2024 and Q5 2025, making it the third-most abused top-level domain (TLD) after .com and .ru.

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