{"id":9160,"date":"2025-05-02T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:23:05","slug":"beware-domain-name-renewal-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/beware-domain-name-renewal-phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Domain Name Renewal Phishing Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most phishing attacks are easy to identify, but we\u2019ve just seen one that\u2019s more likely to evade detection. Those who own personal or business Internet domain names\u2014to personalize their email or provide an online presence for their website\u2014may receive fake messages claiming that a domain has been deactivated due to a payment issue. Because scammers can determine when domain names are due to expire and the name of the company hosting the domain, the urgency triggered by a message that appears to be from the domain host and arriving near the renewal date may cause someone to click a link they shouldn\u2019t. This particular one wasn\u2019t even that well crafted and still caused the recipient brief concern until they manually went to DreamHost and verified that nothing was wrong with their domain payment. Stay alert out there!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10971\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/beware-domain-name-renewal-phishing-attacks.png\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/beware-domain-name-renewal-phishing-attacks-1.png 980w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/beware-domain-name-renewal-phishing-attacks-2.png 480w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/weerapatkiatdumrong)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most phishing attacks are easy to identify, but we\u2019ve just seen one that\u2019s more likely to evade detection. Those who own personal or business Internet domain names\u2014to personalize their email or provide an online presence for their website\u2014may receive fake messages claiming that a domain has been deactivated due to a payment issue. Because scammers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,112,185,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}