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To Err.Is Human: Characterizing the Threat of Unintended URLs in Social Media

Beliz Kaleli, Brian Kondracki, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis and Gianluca Stringhini · NDSS Symposium

Social platforms linkify text too permissively, so a missing space after a full stop turns the next word into a domain whenever it happens to be a valid top-level domain. Attackers register those domains and serve arbitrary content to the followers of large accounts. A seven-month study found over 26,000 such unintended URLs on Twitter.

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Beliz Kaleli, Brian Kondracki, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis and Gianluca Stringhini

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NDSS Symposium

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In the archive

• Collected in the 2021 research round

Related sources

• NDSS 2021 To Err.Is Human: Characterizing the Threat of Unintended URLs in Social Media
• NDSS 2021 To Err.Is Human: Characterizing the Threat of Unintended URLs in Social Media

Tags

• url-parsing
• typosquatting
• parser-differential
• dns
• large-scale-scan
• measurement-study
• mitigation
• owasp-a06-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Beliz Kaleli, Brian Kondracki, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis and Gianluca Stringhini, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 19 August 2026.