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Domain ‘Typosquatting’ Hits 2020 US Elections

At least 550 fake domains targeting Democratic and Republican U.S. Presidential candidates and election-related funding sites have been uncovered by cybersecurity vendor Digital Shadows. Such so-called “typosquatting” efforts are designed to take advantage of errors by users who accidentally mistype the URL of a candidate website and get sent to another site. 68 percent of the typosquatted sites redirect the user to a different site, at times including the site of a political rival, the researchers with Digital Shadows’ Photon Research team say.”]

Source: https://www.databreachtoday.com/domain-typosquatting-hits-2020-us-elections-a-13267

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