news Gay hookup site typo-squatted to push dodgy Chrome extensions, scams

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Ethical hacker and security researcher Kody Kinzie shared with BleepingComputer a list of over 50 domains many of which are spelling variations of the brand name Sniffies.

Many of these domains are operated by scammers hoping to catch users who mistype Sniffies.com in a web browser and land on the counterfeit domain instead.

Once accessed, the illicit "Sniffies" copycat domains do one of the following things:

• Push the user to install dubious Chrome extensions
• Launch the "Music" App on Apple devices right from the web browser
• Lead the users to bogus technical "support" scam sites
• Lead the users to fake job posting sites

In tests by BleepingComputer, one such typosquatting domain sniiffies.com, for example, was seen performing one of the above tasks at random...

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