The ‘staggering’ cybersecurity weakness that isn’t getting enough focus, according to a top Secret Service official

At the 2026 Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead Policy Forum, a senior U.S. Secret Service official warned that weak identity validation in the domain registration ecosystem enables typosquatting, phishing, and abuse concentrated within certain ASNs, forcing platforms to rely on back-end takedowns; he urged major internet companies to proactively limit abuse via advertising and search policies, and underscored that business email compromise remains a leading driver of internet-enabled fraud losses.