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A Large-Scale Analysis of Phishing Websites Hosted on Free Web Hosting Domains. (arXiv:2212.02563v1 [cs.CR])
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While phishing attacks have evolved to utilize several obfuscation tactics to
evade prevalent detection measures, implementing said measures often requires
significant technical competence and logistical overhead from the attacker's
perspective. In this work, we identify a family of phishing attacks hosted over
Free web-Hosting Domains (FHDs), which can be created and maintained at scale
with very little effort while also effectively evading prevalent anti-phishing
detection and resisting website takedown. We observed over 8.8k such phishing
URLs shared on Twitter and …
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