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Cyber Risks · Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks

Cybersquatting: Attackers Mimicking Domains of Major Brands Including Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Netflix to Scam Consumers

Summary: Palo Alto Networks' squatting detector found 13,857 squatting domains registered in December 2019, an average of 450 per day, of which 2,595 (18.59%) were malicious and 5,104 (36.57%) presented high risk to visitors. The best-performing vendor on VirusTotal covered about 25% of the malicious or high-risk squatting domains detected, and 55% were not detected by any vendor.

Why it matters: More than half of the malicious or high-risk squatting domains in this study went undetected by every vendor tested, so a user who mistypes a brand domain may reach attacker infrastructure that no feed on your stack flags.

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