<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Cybersecurity experts from Cofense reveal a significant increase in malicious campaigns using .es domains, with a 19x rise from Q4 2024 to Q5 2025.</li><li>Credential phishing attacks made up 99% of the malicious campaigns, while 1% were related to remote access trojans, and Microsoft was the most impersonated brand.</li><li>.es domains, primarily intended for Spanish-speaking audiences, saw approximately 1,400 malicious subdomains across 450 base domains in the first five months of the year.</li><li>Despite the significant rise in .es domain usage for cyberattacks, common attack vectors remained unchanged, with most attacks impersonating Microsoft and using tactics like spoofed emails to deliver malware.</li></ul>

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