Phishing and Typosquatting

Comments discuss suspicious domain names resembling popular sites, used for phishing attacks, typosquatting, domain squatting, and related DNS security risks.

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Sample Comments

uo21tp5hoyg May 30, 2021 View on HN

If it's malicious it could be to buy up commonly typo'd domain names

motoboi Feb 16, 2022 View on HN

This is for phishing attacks with lookalike domains and sites. Pretty common in the web banking world.

Elof Mar 28, 2019 View on HN

Looks like this has the potential to be used as a way to domain squat. Or maybe even hijack?

nazgulsenpai Jun 27, 2023 View on HN

The article domain is Vivaldi.com so not a very good disguise!

swatcoder Aug 19, 2024 View on HN

It's plausible that it's being naively flagged as something like phishing/misrepresentation of the ".com" site using that name.

unhammer Aug 23, 2021 View on HN

I feel like I should wash my hands after clicking that URL, might want to consider a new domain name?

mistermumble Oct 24, 2013 View on HN

New happy hunting ground for scams, phishing, typosquatting, etc.

nikic Jun 4, 2013 View on HN

I'm seeing it too. Probably people have used domains like amazon.XYZ for phishing in the past.

thiht Dec 31, 2024 View on HN

Such a weird domain name, why not orbit.mozilla.com? This looks like a phishing attempt

romeisendcoming Jan 31, 2019 View on HN

This is an abuse issue at the DNS level, not a problem suitable for end user cosmetic witchery in the browser. Fix DNS abuse.