Digital Shadows finds 225 new, potentially malicious, typosquats in US election domains
Digital Shadows has identified 225 new, potentially malicious, typosquats related to the upcoming US presidential elections. Based on the major party tickets, Digital Shadows identified three classes of typosquats - misconfigured or illegitimate sites, non-malicious sites, and sites that redirect to another – associated with election-specific keywords like Trump, Pence, Biden, and Harris, among others.
In October 2019, Digital Shadows released a similar report revealing over 550 typosquats for the 34 different candidates at the time. While it marks an absolute decrease from the previous sample, the newest typosquats discovered by Digital Shadows have increased relative to the major party candidates by orders of magnitude.