Domain name owners being phished

ICANN's Security and Stability Committee has released a 12-page advisory on 'registrar impersonation phishing attacks' - in other words, phishing attacks targeting domain name owners ("registrants" in ICANN-speak). Owners' contact details are usually published and can be interrogated for free through WHOIS. Putting the target person's contact details together with the fact that they have registered a domain name provides the phishing hook. Owners are invited to 'login and update their contact details', whereupon the phisher steals the login credentials and, presumably, manipulates the DNS entries for their own nefarious purposes.