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Greybeard cybersec guy who values ethics, trust, friendship, teamwork. I'm a partner at Interisle Consulting Group, board member at CAUCE and APWG, and was named to the team of experts at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. I'm keenly interested in measuring cybercrimes and the resources criminals use to perpetrate them and currently scratching this itch at the Cybercrime Information Center. I'm a Golden Retriever lover and fantasy novel devotee. I love to cook: Italian, French, Chinese, Thai, Mediterranean and Low Country are staples. Married to the finest and loveliest person I've ever known.

Posts

Post #4355420
Interisle's malware analyses for the April – June 2026 reporting period are now available at the Cybercrime Information Center. There, you can find rankings of the Top-level Domains (TLDs), Domain Registrars, and Hosting operators (by ASN) with the most malware activity. We also post aggregate records of all operators that met our minimum criteria for malware reported in CSV format at the Cybercrime Information Center’s records repository. https://interisle.substack.com/p/malware-trends-a...
Post #4243093
It’s True. We Underreport the Volumes of Resources That Cybercriminals Use We’ve noted in our Interisle landscape studies that our figures underreport the numbers of domain names, IP addresses, and URLs, and free web site user accounts that cybercriminals have misused for phishing, malware and spam. Everyone underreports. Today, I’ll explain what Interisle takes into consideration when we say that our research underreports certain figures. https://interisle.substack.com/p/its-true-we-underre...
Post #4164549
Phishing Landscape 2026 – Who were the Most-Phished Brands? Phishing attacks take advantage of well-known brands (either in the phishing content or in the domain names used as part of phishing attacks. In this post, we show the brands that were most often impersonated, either in the content of the phishing attack, a URL, or as part of a domain name used in the phishing attack. #dnsabuse #phishing #cybercrime #brand #fakesite #impersonation https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-landscape-2...
Post #290805
Phishing in the 2020s: Where in the World Are Phishing Pages Hosted? In this post, we look at the top countries where phishing pages have been hosted. Teaser: Of the thirty-two countries that have appeared in the top twenty over a 5-year period, ten have appeared every year. https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-in-the-2020s-where-in-the #phishing #hosting #cybercrime #ASN subscribe: https://interisle.substack.com/subscribe