Unlike with Word and other office software, your browser’s address bar doesn’t have a spell checker which is why look-alike domains are often used in phishing attacks and to spread malware.

Typosquatting and cybersquatting are similar in their techniques, but there are crucial differences. While, as we’ve seen, typosquatting involves using misspelled versions of genuine website ...

It’s hard to keep track of the many ways malware can infect your devices, but “typosquatting” is one of the sneakiest. As the name implies, hackers create websites, download links ...

A large-scale phishing campaign built on typosquatting is targeting Windows and Android users with malware, according to a threat intelligence firm and cybersecurity website. The campaign ...

A massive, malicious campaign is underway using over 200 typosquatting domains that impersonate twenty-seven brands to trick visitors into downloading various Windows and Android malware ...

But those looking to send and receive crypto will have to beware of so-called “typosquatting” scams, or risk losing thousands of dollars. A new study by researchers at Stony Brook University ...

A large typosquatting campaign has been detected abusing Amazon’s AWS cloud platform to lure people into tech support scams. After being tipped off by an actual computer technician working at a ...

Thousands of typosquatting domains are now registered to exploit the desperation of IT admins still struggling to recover from last week's CrowdStrike outage, researchers say.… According to ...

Typosquatting is a phishing attack that hackers use to steal the user’s information once he lands on a phishing page (a page that mimics the original website). Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome ...

A package called “aabquerys” has been spotted on the open-source JavaScript npm repository using typosquatting techniques to enable the download of malicious components. The findings come from ...