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A Potential IRI Based Phishing Strategy

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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005 (WISE 2005)

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We anticipate a potential phishing strategy by obfuscation of Web links using Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI). In the IRI scheme, the glyphs of many characters look very similar while their Unicodes are different. Hence, certain different IRIs may show high similarity. The potential phishing attacks based on this strategy are very likely to happen in the near future with the boosting utilization of IRI. We report this potential phishing strategy to provoke much further dissections of related counter measures.

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  1. Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., Masinter, L.: RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, The Internet Society (January 2005)

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  3. Fu, A.Y.: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~anthony/AntiPhishing/IRI (June 2005)

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  1. Dept of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave., Hong Kong SAR., China

    Anthony Y. Fu, Xiaotie Deng & Wenyin Liu

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  1. Texas State University, San Marcos, TX,  

    Anne H. H. Ngu

  2. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, 153-8505, Tokyo, Japan

    Masaru Kitsuregawa

  3. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Erich J. Neuhold

  4. IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, 10598, New York, Yorktown Heights, USA

    Jen-Yao Chung

  5. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng

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Fu, A.Y., Deng, X., Liu, W. (2005). A Potential IRI Based Phishing Strategy. In: Ngu, A.H.H., Kitsuregawa, M., Neuhold, E.J., Chung, JY., Sheng, Q.Z. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005. WISE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11581062_67

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11581062_67

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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