Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1304012
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/3133956.3134002
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- CCS '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
- First page
- 569
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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7
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- Citation count
- 14
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper is the first world study of the combosquatting phenomenon, that daily leads to the massive abuse of domain names around the world. The latter is one of the first steps of phishing attacks happening on a daily base. The study proved that the abuse is real, is dominating compared to other studied domain name abuse techniques and that popular trademark owners should stay vigilant as existing techniques can not guarantee their protection.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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