Fake election domains could put US voters at risk online
With the US 2020 election quickly approaching, the cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows has decided to revisit its report from last year on typoquatters targeting the US Presidential election.
Typosquatters often target popular sites or keywords and register misspelled domain names in an effort to bring visitors to their own products, scams or even malware.
released a bulletin in August warning internet users of potentially malicious domains related to the US election. The firm used Shadow Search to identify domains that included the words Trump, Pence, Biden, Kamala or Kamala Harris, vote, elect and poll within their WHOIS data.
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After collecting this data, Digital Shadows identified the likelihood of domains being candidate or election-related and ended up with 225 potentially malicious domains which is half of
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