Typosquatting Sites Among The Web's Most Popular, Company Finds

MrBrian · Jan 11, 2012

From http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/typosquatting-fake-web-addresses-continues-gain-popularity-011112:

According to security firm Websense, users who have fat-fingered Twitter’s Web address are driving massive amounts of traffic to one of these fake, spam-ridden sites. As of Wednesday, the site, video-rewardz.com, has seen a whopping 786 percent jump in pageviews on Alexa over the past month, globally.
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MrBrian · Jan 23, 2012

From Network Of 7K Typo Squatting Domains Drives Huge Traffic To Spam Web Sites:

In its latest report, the researchers at Websense say that the same network of typo squatting sites also includes typo squatting domains for major online and retail Web sites, including Google's Gmail and YouTube Web sites, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and The Home Depot. The network is funnelling tens of millions of monthly viewers to shady Web sites controlled by the spammers, which have appeared high up on ratings of prominent Web sites such as Alexa.com.
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