Understanding the effectiveness of typosquatting techniques
Jeffrey Spaulding, DaeHun Nyang, Aziz Mohaisen · 2017
The nefarious practice of Typosquatting involves deliberately registering Internet domain names containing typographical errors that primarily target popular domain names, in an effort to redirect users to unintended destinations or stealing traffic for monetary gain. Typosquatting has existed for well over two decades and continues to be a credible threat to this day. As recently shown in the online magazine Slate.com [19], cybercriminals have attempted to distribute malware through Netflix.om, a typosquatted variant of the popular streaming site Netflix.com that uses the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Oman (.om).