Abstract:
This project is about an application that can be used to identify any malicious activity
on a particular website. Our aim is to make browsing safe for everyone and spread
awareness about how easy it is to gather personal information of any person. All that
person must do is to click on a website. With the growth ofthe internet, the number of
malicious attacks has risen, with phishing being the most common. Phishing is a broad
word that almost everyone is unfamiliar with. Phishing is a method of obtaining
personal information such as passwords, credit card numbers, financial transactions,
and so on. Majority of the phishing attacks are conducted by posing as trustworthy
entity. Victims ate tricked into providing such information by a combination of
spoofing techniques and social engineering. The fact that these fake websites look very
similar to the original ones is why almost everyone falls for this technique. Therefore,
these websites are being hosted. In this paper we have proposed a new approach named
as "Malicious Website Detection using Visual Cryptography and OTP" to solve the
problem of phishing. Here an image-based authentication using Visual Cryptography
is implemented with the combination of OTP (One Time Password). The use of visual
cryptography is explored to preserve the privacy of an image captcha by decomposing
the original image captcha into two shares. Through our proposed method, user will
be able to enter the URL ofany website and our project will them how safe that website
is for use. What makes our project unique is how easy it is to use. It is useful not for
every security enthusiast but for every single user willing to secure their internet
browsing. Using this, website cross verifies its identity and proves that it is a genuine
website before the end users.
