[pchelpers] Article:Hackers move to using typosquatting tactics

Dan Raywood
December 17, 2008

Internet users have a one in 14 chance of landing on a typosquatting
site.

Greg Day, security analyst at McAfee, claimed that cybercriminals are
‘typosquatting', where they register common misspellings of popular
domain names and products to then redirect those who make mistakes to
alternative websites.

He claimed that a typical person misspelling a popular URL has a one in
14 chance of landing at a typosquatter site, where the typosquatter
generates click-through advertising revenue to lure customers into scams
and harvest email addresses. 

More here:
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Hackers-move-to-using-typosquatting-tactics/article/123001/
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