Cybersquatting

Mathew, Alex; Hajj, Aayad Al; Ambusaidi, Mohammed A.

doi:10.1109/iceit.2010.5607800

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“…Also known as Domain Squatting is the act of registering a domain for the purpose of profiting from a trademark belonging to an individual or a company. 14 For example if a user owns example.com cybersquatters can register the domain with another TLD like example.no or exmple.org. Cybersquatters can profit off by selling back the domain to trademark owner at an inflated price or by carrying out brand related frauds and scams like phishing.…”

Section: Cybersquattingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Overview of phishing landscape and homographs in Arabic domain names

Ahmad

Erdődi

2021

Security and Privacy

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In this paper, we summarize the latest social engineering phishing attack types with the focus on domain name manipulation. Providing a fake domain is a crucial part of phishing attacks that can be carried out with different techniques such as cybersquatting, typosquattings, or homographs. We argue that homographs with special International Domain Names can be very serious threat for many users that can hardly be identified. We present the analysis of phishing attacks with Arabic domains and conclude that because of the linguistic complexity of the Arabic language and the missing support by the industrial tools expose millions of users to sophisticated domain manipulation based phishing attacks. To reduce the future risk of homograph attacks originating from Arabic internationalized domain names (IDNs) we suggest a change to the registration policy. We also present a browser extension to assist against homographs in current Arabic IDN namespace.

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Section: Cybersquattingmentioning

confidence: 99%