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 currently ...

Admit it. You’ve made mistakes when typing in the name of a website. Your fingers fumble over each other, and before you know it you’re not on google.com but goole.com instead. It’s an easy mistake to ...

In getting to Web sites, neatness counts. If you type in the wrong Web address, you might be in for a surprise. You could be taken to a site run by a business that competes with the site you were ...

A story published here last week warned readers about a vast network of potentially malicious Web sites ending in “.cm” that mimic some of the world’s most popular Internet destinations (e.g. espn[dot ...

It's all because of a security issue called typosquatting which has reached unprecedented levels of criminals trying to take advantage of the growing popularity of online shopping and social media.

When typosquatting is mentioned, most people think of domain typosquatting, which according to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) of 1999 means registering, trafficking in, or using ...

Two so-called ‘typosquatting’ websites that directed unsuspecting Internet users to sites pretending to be Wikipedia and Twitter have been forced offline, with the respective owners fined £100,000 ...

Typosquatting, that seedy practice of registering domain names similar to legit sites but with typos in the name, has a new twist. At a Black Hat presentation last week on a Symantec long-term ...

Researchers at Sonatype, a leader in the DevSecOps and repository management space, discovered and confirmed the presence of new vulnerable npm packages this week. The packages exfiltrate/broadcast ...