Multiple high-profile companies are teaming up to create a non-profit organisation providing free tools and intelligence to internet infrastructure operators, to help them fight cybercrime.
Facebook, Verizon and numerous security intelligence and anti-virus firms are backing the Secure Domain Foundation. The foundation aims to cut down the amount of malicious and false domains used to distribute malware and control botnets by creating a database of untrustworthy sites and providing equipment to remove them. This database has been developed over two years and will continue to grow. Domain registrars are incorporating data validation into transactions such as new accounts or domain registration so that the transactions can be cross-referenced with the database, rooting out untrustworthy sites. These tools are all free of charge to registrars.
