Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome use Google safe browsing feature to warn users about phishing sites and other malwares. But now cyber criminals found a new way redirect users to phishing or other malware site. There is a number of url redirection and url shortening services are available over the internet and cyber criminals using these services to redirect users to phishing or other malware websites.
Cyber criminals are able to bypass Google safe browsing because of the fact that Google safe browsing rank websites only at the domain level. So using a domain which will always be ranked as non-malicious ensures that the infected page will not be warned about and most of the url shortening and url redirection services are not listed as malicious or malware websites in Google servers.
Popular URL categorization engines categorized TinyURL as “Computing and Internet”, “Search Engines / Web Catalogs / Portals” and “Software / Hardware / Distributors”, while the real malicious URL was categorized as “Other”. So it is clear that Google Safe Browsing has a slight edge when queried about the malicious URL, but all engines agree that TInyURL is benign.
Google needs to find out some way to url redirection and url shortening mechanism so users will be warned before directly redirecting to phishing or malware websites.
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