Typosquatting to inject referral code and 302 redirect

[sun818]

A very interesting way to make money as an affiliate marketer. I would think this is against TOS from the bigger companies?

[blog.0day.rocks...]

The scheme is very smart, they register large amount of typosquatted domains that will be injecting their affiliate ID into a 302 redirect to the legitimate website. Almost invisible to the victim, the attacker will share a part of the profit when the user buys anything from the visited website. It was confirmed that one group has made $400 this way for one abused company (among many others).

[engine]

Hasn't this been around forever! Using it for the spread of malware is probably more profitable.