Phishing, fraud, malware, and brand impersonation do not scale because attackers are especially clever - they scale because the internet makes it cheap and anonymous to stand up new infrastructure. At the centre of that problem sits domain registration. If domains can be registered globally with minimal identity verification, cybercrime will continue to industrialize faster than defenders can respond. This article examines why anonymous registration has become one of the internet’s most powerful abuse enablers - and what would change if registrars worldwide treated identity verification as a security control, not a formality.

The internet powers our world - but it also fuels cybercrime. Every day, phishing campaigns, malware, and botnets target businesses and individuals alike. Combating this scale of threat requires constant vigilance, collaboration, and intelligence sharing. At Excedo Networks | Security Operations Center | Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), we are on the frontlines of this battle. Our team operates 24/7/365, detecting and disrupting internet-related crimes in real time. Because when cybercriminals do not rest, neither can we.

From a cloned website to a possible back-end breach in less than a year. EPM faced three waves of attacks that impacted thousands of customers and caused multi-million-dollar losses. Discover the full timeline, the impact, and the lessons every critical infrastructure provider in Latin America needs to learn.