“Typosquatting is a fairly rare situation, but the impact can be large, making the creation of malicious open-source components a viable attack pattern,” says Tim Mackey, principal security ...

Nova Scotia N.S. failing to protect against 'typosquatting,' doppelganger websites, says analyst The practices can be used to trick someone into providing personal information ...

Researchers from Orca Security recently investigated the impact typosquatting can have in the GitHub Actions ecosystem by registering 14 GitHub organizations with names that are misspellings of ...

In a blog post detailing their findings, Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma said they had discovered 130 typosquatting packages on the JavaScript package manager npm and a dozen malicious packages on ...

This feature is designed to warn users when they visit typosquatting domains, IDN Homograph/unicode attacks, scams, and phishing sites.

Dubbed typosquatting, the idea is simple (if devious): A hacker registers a domain that is close enough to a real site, like yourbanknarne.com, and puts up a clone of yourbankname.com.

Typosquatting and automatic tools are the weapons of choice. Written by Charlie Osborne, Contributing Writer March 24, 2022, 1:58 a.m. PT ...