{"id":207985,"date":"2026-01-29T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/secret-service-warns-domain-registration-system-is-major-security-flaw-hackers-exploit\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:55:15","slug":"secret-service-warns-domain-registration-system-is-major-security-flaw-hackers-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/secret-service-warns-domain-registration-system-is-major-security-flaw-hackers-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service warns domain registration system is major security flaw hackers exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/secret-service-iana-domain-security-weakness\/\">Secret Service warns domain registration system is major security flaw hackers exploit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/secret-service-iana-domain-security-weakness\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/secret-service-iana-domain-security-weakness\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 16:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet domain registration system is a major weakness that malicious hackers can exploit, but is often being overlooked, a senior Secret Service official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is staggering to me that we live in a world where domain registrars and registrars will do bulk registration of various spellings of a major institution\u2019s brand name to create URLs to then use in phishing campaigns or in fraudulent advertising,\u201d the official, Matt Noyes, said at a conference in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of two areas Noyes identified as attack vectors that aren\u2019t adequately being addressed during a panel at the 2026 Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead Policy Forum, along with susceptibility to business email compromise scams.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is in how the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, he said. A decade ago, the United States relinquished its control of that process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not discussed normally in polite company, but very important \u2026 for the handful of people that engage in Internet governance,\u201d Noyes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Think about every phishing campaign that contains a link, whether that\u2019s sent by SMS or email,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want a URL that is deceptive. That is an identity weakness there in how internet assigned names and numbers function; there was not sufficient validation that the person registering that domain name has rights to that \u2014 owns a trade right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That forces companies like Microsoft and Google to seek court-ordered takedown operations on the \u201cback end,\u201d as Noyes described it. However, Noyes suggested that internet companies could address the problem proactively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is fundamentally a failure of internet governance that we have not created identity checks to ensure that when someone is registering names and numbers or concentrating a huge amount of abuse in fraudulent activity in particular ASN, autonomous system numbers, that it\u2019s getting addressed and cleaned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/secret-service-iana-domain-security-weakness\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Service warns domain registration system is major security flaw hackers exploit https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/secret-service-iana-domain-security-weakness\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-968118766.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31,25],"class_list":["post-207985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-exploit","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207987,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207985\/revisions\/207987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}