Security News > 2016 > June > Infecting Systems by Typosquatting Programming Language Libraries (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-15 11:47
Typosquatting is an old trick of registering a domain name a typo away from a popular domain name and using it for various nefarious purposes. Nikolai Philipp Tschacher just published a bachelor's thesis where he does the same trick with the names of popular code libraries, and tricks 17,000 computers into running arbitrary code. Ars Technica article....
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