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Favicon hashes can be use for finding vulnerable and phishing websites

Favicon hash can be a way to find vulnerable websites, you can use it especially in BugBunty programs. And this is because different versions of software use different favicons.

But “favicon’s Hash” is not just for finding vulnerable websites. An other useful example is find Phishing websites. Because fake websites try to look exactly like the original website, from top -favicon- to bottom. In this way we …

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