Dealing with Bad Apples: Organizational Awareness and Protection for Bit-flip and Typo-Squatting Attacks

Huancheng Hu, Afshin Zivi, Christian Doerr · 2024

The domain name system (DNS) maps human-readable service names to IP addresses used by the network. As it exerts control over where users are directed to, domain names have been targets of abuse ever since the Internet become a success. Over the past twenty years, adversaries have repeatedly invented new strategies to trick users and our findings reveal a continuous increase in the exploitation of domain names.

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