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Username Squatting on Online Social Networks: A Study on X. (arXiv:2401.09209v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)
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Adversaries have been targeting unique identifiers to launch typo-squatting,
mobile app squatting and even voice squatting attacks. Anecdotal evidence
suggest that online social networks (OSNs) are also plagued with accounts that
use similar usernames. This can be confusing to users but can also be exploited
by adversaries. However, to date no study characterizes this problem on OSNs.
In this work, we define the username squatting problem and design the first
multi-faceted measurement study to characterize it on X. We develop …
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