{"id":222192,"date":"2025-09-20T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/17500-phishing-domains-target-316-brands-across-74-countries-in-global-phaas-surge"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:24:13","slug":"17500-phishing-domains-target-316-brands-across-74-countries-in-global-phaas-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/17500-phishing-domains-target-316-brands-across-74-countries-in-global-phaas-surge","title":{"rendered":"17,500 Phishing Domains Target 316 Brands Across 74 Countries in Global PhaaS Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/17500-phishing-domains-target-316-brands-across-74-countries-in-global-phaas-surge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) offering known as <b>Lighthouse <\/b>and <b>Lucid <\/b>has been linked to more than 17,500 phishing domains targeting 316 brands from 74 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) deployments have risen significantly recently,\u201d Netcraft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netcraft.com\/blog\/inside-the-lighthouse-and-lucid-phaas-campaigns-targeting-316-global-brands\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a new report. \u201cThe PhaaS operators charge a monthly fee for phishing software with pre-installed templates impersonating, in some cases, hundreds of brands from countries around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucid was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/04\/lucid-phaas-hits-169-targets-in-88.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first documented<\/a> by Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT earlier this April, detailing the phishing kit\u2019s ability to send smishing messages via Apple iMessage and Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) offering known as Lighthouse and Lucid has been linked to more than 17,500 phishing domains targeting 316 brands from 74 countries. \u201cPhishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) deployments have risen significantly recently,\u201d Netcraft said in a new report. \u201cThe PhaaS operators charge a monthly fee for phishing software with pre-installed templates impersonating, in some cases, hundreds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}