Bitsquatting
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Form of cybersquatting
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Bitsquatting is a form of cybersquatting which relies on bit-flip errors that occur during the process of making a DNS request. These bit-flips may occur due to factors such as faulty hardware or cosmic rays. When such an error occurs, the user requesting the domain may be directed to a website registered under a domain name similar to a legitimate domain, except with one bit flipped in their respective binary representations.
A 2011 Black Hat paper detailed an analysis where eight legitimate domains were targeted with thirty one bitsquat domains. Over the course of about seven months, 52,317 requests were made to the bitsquatted domains.[1]
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[edit ]- ↑ Artem Dinaburg (July 2011). "Bitsquatting - DNS Hijacking without Exploitation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018年06月11日. Retrieved 2020年05月06日.
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