User:TheBrush/Murling

Murling

Url with a malicious purpose placed within a domain name of current news topic registered by the cyber criminal, is an activity known as "Murling".

The purpose of this technique is to fool the user into clicking on the friendly named domain. As soon as they do click the client machine will be subjected to an attempt to download/push install malicious software. Unfortunately the evil doer is able to register any domain name. They will often use names to match recent events. These domain names will then be searchable entities on the Internet and can also be placed in emails. On appearance alone it is difficult to determine whether the site is a threat or not.]