When you want to visit a well-known and trusted website, you might instinctively type its domain name directly into your browser’s address bar. However, a simple typo—an extra letter, a missing character, or a swapped keystroke—can lead you somewhere entirely different. This phenomenon, known as typosquatting, is a deceptive practice where cybercriminals register misspelled versions of popular domain names to trick unsuspecting users.
These fake websites can be harmless lookalikes or, worse, sophisticated traps designed to steal your personal information, install malware, or display misleading ads. To understand the real risks of mistyping a domain, we conducted a quick experiment to see what happens when users accidentally visit a misspelled version of a popular website:
As you can see, there are numerous suspicious redirects, many of which appear to be related to ad-based redirections. These redirects ultimately lead to a .7z file...
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