Typosquatting:
In the domain name system, typosquatting is a well known problem. Typosquatting is the malicious registering of a domain that is lexically similar to another, often highly frequented, website. Typosquatters would for instance register a domain named Gooogle.com instead of the well known Google.com. Then they hope that people mistype the website name in the browser and accidentally arrive on the wrong site. The misguided traffic is then often monetized either with advertisements or malicious attacks such as drive by downloads or exploit kits. [“Typosquatting programming language package managers,” Nikolai Tschacher, incolumitas.com]
You have to like the dude’s results, too.
At least 43.6% of the 17289 unique IP addresses executed the notification [i.e., hoax] program with administrative rights.
That’s a lot of vulnerability.
