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Network Of 7K Typo Squatting Domains Drives Huge Traffic To Spam Web Sites
Topic Started: Jan 24 2012, 07:06 PM (31 Views)
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Monday, January 23, 2012 Around the Web
Network Of 7K Typo Squatting Domains Drives Huge Traffic To Spam Web Sites

A report from Websense finds that spammers are cleaning up on misspelled domain names for prominent sites. A network of such typo squatting sites is driving millions of visitors to a Web site controlled by the spammers, making it one of the most traffic sites on the Interne

The report, on Websense's blog, is a follow up to an earlier report which observed that spammers were generating huge traffic by purchasing typo squatting domains for the microblogging Web site Twitter.com, then redirecting would-be Twitter users to their own domains, such as video-rewardz.com, a spam site. 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.

One estimate puts the value of the highly trafficked spam sites at $20 million, based on traffic.

Story - https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/network-7k-typo-squatting-domains-drives-huge-traffic-spam-web-sites-012312
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