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Reminds me of BitSquatting where cosmic rays, hardware, or other errors flip a bit in a domain name and an advantage you can gain by purchasing bitflipped domai
by molticrystal 3y ago
Reminds me of BitSquatting where cosmic rays, hardware, or other errors flip a bit in a domain name and an advantage you can gain by purchasing bitflipped domains.
>Over the course of about seven months, 52,317 requests were made to the bitsquat domains [0]
[0] https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinaburg_Bitsquatting_WP.pdf https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabu...
- throwaway290 3y agoSection 5.3 of the PDF is veeery interesting. They check where the most requests to bitsquat domains come from. They chose microsoft.com as a more neutral reference than e.g. FB. And looking at the graph, the lion's share of requests to bitsquat domains for microsoft comes from... China?? Followed by Brazil? (and only then by US)