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combosquatting: a standalone construct

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Computer security

registering domain names that join a trademark with other words, used for phishing and abuse and measured over years of DNS data.

In computer security, combosquatting refers to registering domain names that join a trademark with other words, used for phishing and abuse and measured over years of DNS data. This meaning comes from Kintis (2017) in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.[1]

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domain3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs join3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs security3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Kintis, P., Miramirkhani, N., Lever, C., Chen, Y., Romero-Gómez, R., Pitropakis, N., Nikiforakis, N., & Antonakakis, M. (2017). Hiding in Plain Sight: A Longitudinal Study of Combosquatting Abuse. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. https://doi.org/10.1145/3133956.3134002

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