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Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by Orochikaku on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:12PM (#27328642)
Perhaps someone could help me understand what the attack vector of the group suppousedly conducting "DNS error research" is.
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Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by 70jS8h5L on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:28PM (#27328753)
No idea, but I wonder if squatting on the most popular misspelt domains, to serve malware/whatever?

e.g. facebool.com or similar, presumably there's an interesting distribution of similar misspellings.

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Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by darren_ on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:30PM (#27328756)
Just a guess but maybe they want to detect domains people are looking up that don't exist so they can squat them.
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