Other typosquatting attacks may employ other forms of malware. Whatever is lurking in those misspelled URLs, the trick is actually getting people to open the fake links instead of the real thing.

A single typo could let hackers hijack your system using malware hidden in fake packages Cross-platform malware now fools even experienced developers by mimicking trusted open source package names ...

A large-scale phishing attack built on typosquatting is targeting Windows and Android users with malware. The campaign currently underway uses more than 200 typosquatting domains that impersonate ...

The npm supply chain attack appears to have originated in October, and we've seen three different security shops sound the alarm on this novel typosquatting effort that uses Ethereum smart ...

According to Phylum, this involved at least 287 malware packages, all deploying the typosquatting technique to target developers downloading a range of libraries including Puppeteer and Bignum.js ...

The attackers use a technique called typosquatting. For example, instead of “colorama,” a developer might accidentally type “col0rama” or “coloramaa” and download a harmful version.

“The threat actors target victims with Typosquatting attack technique using their CLI to install Python packages,” Checkmarx researchers Yehuda Gelb, Jossef Harush Kadouri, and Tzachi ...

Discover how supply chain attacks target crypto projects through third-party tools, ... Typosquatting is a common technique used in supply chain attacks where malicious packages closely mimic ...

A new class of supply chain attacks named 'slopsquatting' has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model's tendency to "hallucinate" non-existent package names.

A new software supply chain attack is being exploited in the wild, according to security researchers. The technique targets Python applications distributed via the Python Package Index, or PyPI.

How typosquatting made the Bitcoinlib attack so effective . The Bitcoinlib attack worked because of a tactic called typosquatting.. This is when hackers create fake package names that look almost ...