RSS FEED Infecting Systems by Typosquatting Programming Language Libraries

[BruceSchneier]

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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