Meaningful statistics provided for few fraudulent domains
By Ionut Ilascu on October 11th, 2014 http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/fitted/340x180/Very-Few-Phishing-Domains-Are-Ranked-By-Alexa.jpgA small number of domains involved in phishing are ramked by Alexa. The general belief is that website ranking systems do not provide scores for malicious domains; but fraudulent URLs sometimes manage to gain just enough popularity to receive a score from such services.
A team of researchers from Cyveillance cyber intelligence company made an experiment to see if Alexa ranking system indexes phishing domains involved in phishing. After crunching the numbers, they found that "the likelihood of a domain having a phishing attack and having an Alexa score between 0 and 100,000 is 0.2%”.
A rough translation of the percentage means that almost none of the websites ranked by Alexa with a score up to 100,000, are involved in phishng attacks. This score limit has been chosen because there is not enough data available to make rankings above it statistically meaningful. Full Article
Very Few Domains Used For Phishing Are Ranked By Alexa
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Domains that are ranked by Alexa should be a indication of trust to a extent based on the above statistics
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