Researchers discover network of 7,000 typo squatting domains | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
A network of some 7,000 typo squatting domains is being used by scammers to effectively drive traffic towards their scammy sites, some of which get so much traffic that they managed to enter Alexa's top 250 list of sites with the largest Web traffic, say Websense researchers.

 

The typo squatting domains take advantage of the "fat-fingered" visitors of popular websites such as Google, Twitter, Gmail, YouTube, Wikipedia, Victoria's Secret, Craigslist, and many more, and redirect them to spam survey sites.