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Typosqatting 'Mistyped URLs' Makes Advertising Sites Gains Revenue
Bangalore: A study by Paul Ducklin, Sophos says that the 80 percent of mistyped websites leads to typosquatting sites. Typosquatting is also called URL hijacking which relies on mistakes done by internet users when typing a website address.
Sophos has selected some popular website like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Apple for the experiment of typosquatting. The 15 percent of mistyped URLs are diverted to advertising sites which hope to make money out of traffic from typing mistakes.
The study also revealed the popular websites typosquates. Microsoft typosquats were at 61 percent, Twitter 74 percent, Facebook 81 percent, Google 83 percent and Apple at 86 percent. Clearly, there is an important typosquatting ecosystem wherer we often-typed domain names.
“It’s so easy to mistype a URL, and it’s inevitable that from time to time you will end up on an unintended website. In the worst cases, careless typing can lead you to a criminal website designed to steal your identity or phish your credentials. A good idea is to bookmark your favorite websites rather than rely upon your fingers working correctly,” said Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos.
It’s most common that many internet users mistype URLs and lead to the bad intentioned websites where they can make good revenue with your mistake.