Another obvious giveaway is of course the URL. Firstly, although the phishing site looks legit, if you click on any of the links such as “need help” or “Sign up now”, the page just reloads again. This domain is also unrelated to Netflix and the attack.īut several things give the Netflix scam away. The main Netflix lookalike site is hosted on the ‘axxisgeocom’ domain, which belongs to an oil and gas company based in Texas. Meanwhile, the pages used to orchestrate the attack were also hosted on legitimate domains. The functioning CAPTCHA page “makes the entire communication seem more legitimate,” says Armorblox. The Netflix email was able to evade security controls because it was different to most attacks utilising phishing. MORE FROM FORBES MacOS Big Sur Code Suggests Game-Changing New Feature Coming To The Mac By Kate O'Flaherty How the Netflix scam bypassed controls
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