Resharing a recent investigation for anyone who may have missed it the first time 👇 Back in April, we started tracking a sharp surge in phishing campaigns routed through residential proxy networks. Digging deeper, our analysis points to a persistent China-nexus threat actor focused predominantly on Japan 🇯🇵 Catch up on the full story, including what we’ve seen so far and what might come next 🕵️⤵️⤵️

Strengthening trust and safety across the internet | Spamhaus

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🌐 NEW DOMAIN TRENDING TERMS | 6 new entries linked to user behaviour and search activity: system (#2), engine (#4), search (#6), internet (#9), information (#10), keyword (#11). 🤖 With algorithms shifting towards Large Language Models (LLMs), are we seeing an increase in black hat SEO activity? 🎩 Learn more in the latest #DomainReputation Update 👇👇

Report | Domain Reputation Update Apr - Sept 2025 | Spamhaus Project

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📨 Over the past 30 days, we’ve observed a sharp increase in spam-emitting IPs originating from four countries: #7 Russia – 149,352 detections (+76%) #8 Vietnam – 146,370 detections (+184%) #9 Morocco – 132,041 detections (+123%) #10 Pakistan – 127,542 detections (+93%) 🌏 Reputation Statistics | Countries 👉 https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/countries/spam/ Researchers are seeing 🇯🇵 Japanese residential proxy–based phishing with a slight evolution in tactics, to previously reported in a recent article: ⤵️

🌐 DOMAIN REPORT APR - SEPT 2025 | 43.5 million new domains registered - 75% gTLDs - with .top (+94%) and .xyz (+103%) in the🔝 3 gTLDs. 📈 Domains listed are up +48.3% 😱 ! One registry saw huge increases 🩳 🔵 - can you guess which one? 🔦 Don't miss the Report Spotlight: ‘TDS Abuse - What’s hiding behind the veil?’ Read the full report here ⤵️ ⤵️

Report | Domain Reputation Update Apr - Sept 2025 | Spamhaus Project

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Commencing April, we noticed a surge in phishing spam emissions leveraging residential proxy networks, akin by scale and speed to the heydays of botnet spam in the 2000s. 📈 🤖 Looking closer, we assess this is a major shift of a persistent China-nexus threat actor predominately targeting Japan, emancipating themselves from disseminating phishing via subnets at several branches of China Telecom and China Unicom. ⤵️