Microsoft Patch Tuesday gaffe leads netizens to 'Microosft' typo-squatting domain

Microsoft Patch Tuesday gaffe leads netizens to 'Microosft' typo-squatting domain

Patch Tuesday For its February Patch Day, Microsoft released security advisories covering 56 CVE-assigned vulnerabilities, 11 of them rated critical.


In doing so, the Windows giant managed to publish a misspelled URL on the landing page for its February updates that instead of taking visitors to the intended Microsoft Security Response Center post about API changes, pointed to msrc-blog.microosft.com, which turns out to be typo-bait domain. It redirects visitors to a findanswersnow.net search results page for the query "free personal email." Luckily, it was nothing more malicious than that.


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