2016/03/08 by Jeffrey Spaulding, Spaulding, Jeffrey, Shambhu Upadhyaya +3 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Spam and Phishing Detection #cs.CR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.02767
6 pages, 1 table, 0 figures
openalex publication_date 2016/03/08 · arxiv created 2016/03/09 · arxiv published 2016/03/09 · arxiv updated 2016/03/10 · openalex created_date 2022/10/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
With more than 294 million registered domain names as of late 2015, the domain name ecosystem has evolved to become a cornerstone for the operation of the Internet. Domain names today serve everyone, from individuals for their online presence to big brands for their business operations. Such ecosystem that facilitated legitimate business and personal uses has also fostered "creative" cases of misuse, including phishing, spam, hit and traffic stealing, online scams, among others. As a first step towards this misuse, the registration of a legitimately-looking domain is often required. For that, domain typosquatting provides a great avenue to cybercriminals to conduct their crimes. In this paper, we review the landscape of domain name typosquatting, highlighting models and advanced techniques for typosquatted domain names generation, models for their monetization, and the existing literature on countermeasures. We further highlight potential fruitful directions on technical countermeasures that are lacking in the literature.