Dot-cm Typosquatting Sites Visited 12M Times So Far in 2018
Summary: Access logs for a network of more than 1,000 dot-cm typosquatting domains, briefly downloadable from the network's own hosting provider, showed roughly 12 million visits in the first quarter of 2018, including 3,732,488 in January, 3,799,109 in February and 4,275,998 in March. Security expert Matthew Chambers filtered out bot and scraper traffic and found hits from .gov and .mil addresses, including NASA (104 times, 16 to porn sites), the Department of Justice (80 times), the U.S. House of Representatives (47 times) and the CIA (6 times).
Key Takeaway: Federal and military networks, including NASA, DOJ and the CIA, were recorded reaching typosquatting domains that serve fake security alerts and redirects, and the network is rented out by a Colorado firm headed by convicted spammer Scott Richter.
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