Phishing Infrastructure Fluxes All the Way

  • Authors:
  • D. Kevin McGrath;Andrew Kalafut;Minaxi Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington;Indiana University, Bloomington;Indiana University, Bloomington

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

As take-down efforts intensify, Internet fraudsters are beginning to employ novel techniques to keep their campaigns afloat. Fast flux aims to keep fraud campaigns afloat by provisioning a fraudulent Web site's DNS records to make the site resolve to numerous, short-lived IP addresses. Although fast flux hurts take-down efforts, it's possible to detect and defend against it and its prevalence in phishing campaigns today.