An Approach To Perceive Tabnabbing Attack

Abstract The growth of Internet has many pros and cons to mankind which is easily visible in day to day activities. The growth of Internet has also manifested into the other domain of cyber crimes. Phishing web defacement money laundering tax evasion etc. are some of the examples of cyber crimes that have been reported in literature. It has become vital to make technology reliable so that it can record and intelligently apprise the user of illegal activity. The objective of this work is twofold. Firstly in this paper tabnabbing which is a type of phishing attack is explored by developing an attack scenario. Secondly the signature based detection mechanism is proposed to handle tabnabbing attack.