Phishing Activity: Hosting Networks (ASNs)
Quarter over Quarter Comparison:
November 1, 2022 - January 31, 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 August 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022 period to the ranking for the November 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023 period.
Ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) by Phishing Attacks, Quarter over Quarter (November to January 2023)
| IPv4 Addresses Assigned | Number of Phishing Attacks | ||||||||
| Rank | Hosting Provider | ASN | August to October 2022 | November to January 2023 | August to October 2022 | November to January 2023 ▼ | |||
| 1 | ▲ +2* | CLOUDFLARENET | 13335 | 2,445,312 | 2,473,216 | (+1%) | 55,630 | 72,764 | (+31%) |
| 2 | ▼ -1 | ASN-QUADRANET-GLOBAL | 8100 | 676,096 | 644,096 | (-5%) | 89,797 | 33,901 | (-62%) |
| 3 | ▲ +17 | A2HOSTING | 55293 | 137,472 | 129,536 | (-6%) | 2,265 | 29,019 | (+1,181%) |
| 4 | ▲ +23 | M247 - M247 Europe SRL | 9009 | 1,094,656 | 1,112,832 | (+2%) | 1,251 | 25,472 | (+1,936%) |
| 5 | — | 15169 | 15,355,904 | 15,370,496 | (0%) | 17,805 | 20,804 | (+17%) | |
| 6 | ▲ +1 | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK | 8075 | 48,730,112 | 53,061,888 | (+9%) | 17,291 | 17,405 | (+1%) |
| 7 | ▲ +3 | FASTLY | 54113 | 533,504 | 533,248 | (-0%) | 8,610 | 10,882 | (+26%) |
| 8 | ▼ -4 | AMAZON-02 | 16509 | 44,003,328 | 44,528,640 | (+1%) | 19,579 | 10,548 | (-46%) |
| 9 | ▼ -1 | UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 | 46606 | 1,064,704 | 804,608 | (-24%) | 14,865 | 9,997 | (-33%) |
| 10 | N/R** | WEEBLY | 27647 | 2,048 | 2,048 | (0%) | 6,009 | 9,924 | (+65%) |
| 11 | ▼ -2 | DIGITALOCEAN-ASN | 14061 | 2,749,184 | 2,808,576 | (+2%) | 10,261 | 8,924 | (-13%) |
| 12 | ▲ +11 | IS-AS-1 | 19318 | 126,976 | 126,976 | (0%) | 1,741 | 6,628 | (+281%) |
| 13 | ▼ -1 | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM | 396982 | 24,186,368 | 24,654,080 | (+2%) | 6,375 | 6,566 | (+3%) |
| 14 | N/R | PACIFICRACK | 64270 | N/A | 20,224 | (N/A%) | N/A | 6,359 | (N/A%) |
| 15 | ▼ -4 | NAMECHEAP-NET | 22612 | 104,960 | 107,776 | (+3%) | 8,400 | 6,184 | (-26%) |
| 16 | N/R | BLNWX | 399629 | 6,400 | 6,400 | (0%) | 1,837 | 4,946 | (+169%) |
| 17 | ▼ -3 | AMAZON-AES | 14618 | 16,454,400 | 16,429,568 | (-0%) | 4,267 | 3,862 | (-9%) |
| 18 | ▼ -5 | OVH - OVH SAS | 16276 | 4,128,256 | 4,162,560 | (+1%) | 4,447 | 3,750 | (-16%) |
| 19 | ▼ -3 | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited | 47583 | 140,800 | 152,320 | (+8%) | 3,154 | 3,580 | (+14%) |
| 20 | ▼ -1 | HWCSNET Huawei Cloud Service data center | 55990 | 1,020,928 | 865,536 | (-15%) | 2,331 | 3,491 | (+50%) |
* 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 August 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022 period to the ranking for the November 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023 period.
Ranking of Hosting Networks (ASNs) by Phishing Attack Score, Quarter over Quarter (November to January 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 | ASN | August to October 2022 | November to January 2023 | August to October 2022 | November to January 2023 ▼ | |||
| 1 | ▲ +7* | A2HOSTING | 55293 | 137,472 | 129,536 | (-6%) | 165 | 2,240 | (+1,260%) |
| 2 | ▲ +1 | NAMECHEAP-NET | 22612 | 104,960 | 107,776 | (+3%) | 800 | 574 | (-28%) |
| 3 | ▼ -2 | ASN-QUADRANET-GLOBAL | 8100 | 676,096 | 644,096 | (-5%) | 1,328 | 526 | (-60%) |
| 4 | ▲ +9 | IS-AS-1 | 19318 | 126,976 | 126,976 | (0%) | 137 | 522 | (+281%) |
| 5 | — | CLOUDFLARENET | 13335 | 2,445,312 | 2,473,216 | (+1%) | 228 | 294 | (+29%) |
| 6 | — | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited | 47583 | 140,800 | 152,320 | (+8%) | 224 | 235 | (+5%) |
| 7 | ▲ +65 | M247 - M247 Europe SRL | 9009 | 1,094,656 | 1,112,832 | (+2%) | 11 | 229 | (+1,903%) |
| 8 | ▲ +1 | FASTLY | 54113 | 533,504 | 533,248 | (-0%) | 161 | 204 | (+26%) |
| 9 | ▲ +25 | NOCIX | 33387 | 59,392 | 58,880 | (-1%) | 34 | 198 | (+480%) |
| 10 | ▲ +5 | NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-HOSTING | 19871 | 186,368 | 259,072 | (+39%) | 95 | 132 | (+38%) |
| 11 | ▲ +3 | AS-REGRU - "Domain names registrar REG.RU", Ltd | 197695 | 88,064 | 89,600 | (+2%) | 113 | 130 | (+15%) |
| 12 | ▲ +51 | WII | 32097 | 96,256 | 96,768 | (+1%) | 13 | 125 | (+854%) |
| 13 | ▼ -1 | UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 | 46606 | 1,064,704 | 804,608 | (-24%) | 140 | 124 | (-11%) |
| 14 | ▲ +2 | PONYNET | 53667 | 64,000 | 62,720 | (-2%) | 93 | 106 | (+14%) |
| 15 | ▲ +15 | ON-LINE-DATA - Zomro B.V. | 204601 | 58,112 | 58,112 | (0%) | 44 | 105 | (+141%) |
| 16 | ▼ -9 | TIER-NET | 397423 | 56,832 | 56,320 | (-1%) | 209 | 99 | (-53%) |
| 17 | ▲ +11 | CONTABO - Contabo GmbH | 51167 | 312,576 | 335,104 | (+7%) | 51 | 94 | (+86%) |
| 18 | ▼ -14 | DEDIPATH-LLC | 35913 | 300,032 | 328,960 | (+10%) | 589 | 84 | (-86%) |
| 19 | ▲ +13 | DREAMSCAPE-AS-AP Dreamscape Networks Limited | 38719 | 71,680 | 73,728 | (+3%) | 40 | 82 | (+108%) |
| 20 | ▲ +3 | BEGET-AS - Beget LLC | 198610 | 70,912 | 72,192 | (+2%) | 81 | 82 | (+1%) |
* Indicates change over prior quarter
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