Typosquats of Mastodon Servers

Published on: 
February 13, 2023

Likely adserving typosquats

We’re seeing more typosquats targeting popular Mastodon servers lately. Most look like simple adserving typosquats for now, but some of these are protected by Cloudflare, which raises our suspicions about upcoming malicious activity.

Ex:
matodon[.]online
mastoon[.]online

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