TabSol: An Efficient Framework to Defend Tabnabbing

Abstract

Phishing attack is one of the most common cyber attacks causing serious threat to global cyber world and economy. Tab nabbing is a variant of phishing attack evolved recently, in which a malicious page opened in the tab disguises itself to the login page of a popular one, like gmail or facebook, so as to defeat the traditional phish detection mechanisms. In this paper, we propose an efficient security framework called Tab Sol to defend against Tab nabbing attack while detecting the other variants of phishing attacks. We developed and tested Tab Sol in the Google chrome browser and found to be effective. The proposed framework is compared with the existing frameworks and fund to more effective. The most attractive features of Tab Sol includes its simple and fast implementation with less false positive.