2 papers
cs.CR2026
Can LLMs Reason About Brand Ownership? An Empirical Study of Domain Attribution Intelligence
Fathima Mashood, Mohamed Nabeel
When a new domain resembling a popular brand appears, defenders face a fundamental ambiguity: it may be an attacker-created squatting site for phishing, or it may be a domain the b…
cs.CR2026
A Longitudinal Study of Recently Observed Malicious Domains: Characteristics, Infrastructure, and Abuse Patterns
Fathima Mashood, Mohamed Nabeel
We present a longitudinal study of approximately 1.52 million malicious domains observed on VirusTotal (VT) between January and May 2026. Domains were selected on the basis of dete…