DomainTools | 141. Scam a-Lama Ding Dong

This podcast recap covers two themes: scams among cybercriminals on underground forums—where arbitration disputes often leak operational data (emails, crypto addresses, source code) that investigators can pivot on—and research into DNS centralization showing that a handful of providers (e.g., Verisign, Cloudflare, GoDaddy) wield disproportionate control, creating systemic outage risks; it underscores implications for defenders, possible increases in cybercrime amid economic downturns, and the value of continued measurement across gTLDs and ccTLDs.