Phishing/Malware Protection

[jhreis]

In browser-ios, the adblock library is used to flag phishing or malware domains. In brave-ios we will be building this manually (for now at least). There is a combination of two files that are used for this:

Spam404 Domain Blacklist:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/adblock-list.txt
Select only the rows with || before them and ^ at the end of them.
Ignore the rows with ## in them (anywhere) and ! before them.

Disconnect Simple Malware:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt

Using static lists for initial implementation is fine, and we'll follow up with creating dynamic update mechanisms for these files in some form. Using some sort of hash list will be optimal to avoid high levels of iterations. Lists may need to be modified, but should be done through some script, as opposed to manually.

Having a script allows easier updating in the future.

Other points to research:

• What to do when one of these is hit.