McAfee released its fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report.According to this report, .COM was named the riskiest domain name extension,while .JP was named for the second year in a row the safest domain name extension.
In order to do this report,McAffe analyzed more than 27 million website .The report revealed that almost 56 percent of all risky websites end in .COM ,which was named the riskiest country top-level domain.While .COM was named the riskiest top-level domain name, .VN was named the riskiest country domain .
Moreover,this report revealed that 6,2 percent of the website analyzed have a security risk.
“This report underscores how quickly cybercriminals change tactics to lure in victims and avoid being caught. Last year Vietnam’s .VN was a relatively safe domain, and this year it jumped to the third most dangerous domain. Cybercriminals target regions where registering sites is cheap and convenient and pose the least risk of being caught. A domain that’s safe one year can be dangerous the next.” ,said Paula Greve, director of web security research for McAfee Lab.
Here are the top five riskiest country web domain names :
Vietnam ( .VN )
Cameroon ( .CM )
Armenia ( .AM )
Cocos ( .CC )
Russia ( .RU )
Here are the safest country web domain names :
Japan ( .JP )
Catalan (.CAT )
Guernsey ( .GG )
Croatia ( .HR )
Ireland ( .IE )
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