Cybersecurity glossary

Cybersecurity definition

What is Typosquatting?

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Definition

Publishing a malicious package or domain with a name deliberately similar to a popular one — a common misspelling or swapped character — hoping a developer or user installs or visits the fake by mistake.

Where Typosquatting fits in the security landscape

These beginner lessons use this term while explaining the surrounding security control.

Related cybersecurity terms

Supply Chain AttackAn attack that compromises a trusted upstream component — a software dependency, a build pipeline, a vendor's update mechanism — so the malicious code rides along into every downstream organization that uses it.

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