Article 3KXKP The .cm typosquatters accidentally exposed their logs, revealing the incredible scale of typojacking

The .cm typosquatters accidentally exposed their logs, revealing the incredible scale of typojacking

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Cory Doctorow
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.cm is the top-level domain for Cameroon, and the major use-case for .cm domains is typosquatting -- registering common .com domains as .cm domains (like microsoft.cm or apple.cm), in the hopes of nabbing traffic from users who fatfinger while typing a domain, and sometimes serving them malware or directing them to scams. (more")

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