Infrastructure
What is Typosquatting?
Registering domains that look like a real brand's, through typos, swapped letters or extra words, to fool people into trusting them.
Typosquatting is registering domain names that resemble a legitimate one: a missing or swapped letter, a different top-level domain, an added word such as "secure" or "login", or characters that look alike, like rn for m.
These lookalike domains are used for phishing, fake shops and malware downloads. Monitoring new registrations and certificate transparency logs for names similar to your brand is a cheap early warning.