When Rudy Giuliani tweets a typo, hackers get an opening

[SOUND] All right if you follow Rudy Giuliani's Twitter account, be aware that the links he shares may lead you to hackers. And he's not doing this maliciously but he's so prone to making typos on Twitter that people have take up buying up domains based on his errant tweets And some of them are leading to some bad stuff. Salford, what did you find? So this happened on Sunday between the hours of 12:33AM and 8:55AM. He sent out three tweets to his website which is Rudy Giulianics.com, which stands for common sense. It's like a pot Here's the problem of those three tweets, where he tweeted out links to his own website. None of them were actually links to his own website. So. [LAUGH] There was one where he put a space after Rudy. So it was just giulianics.com. And that led to a website that prompted people to download a Google Chrome extension that downloaded. That basically took your browser data and changed your search engine and has been referred to as like spyware by others who have like found the same extension. Right? So that was one website. The other two were more pranks. Okay, Where one of it was. He was talking about Mitt Romney and he said, watch Rudy Giuliani CS calm tomorrow. Here's the thing. He didn't put a space after watch Literally watch Rudy Giuliani. Yeah. So that became its own website. The day after somebody registered that domain name and had it re-direct to a drug rehabilitation program. [LAUGH] And then, there was another one where he just missed the last I in it, so in his own name, for that matter, and that re-directed to the Wikipedia page for the Trump-Ukraine scandal. Wow. So some of it is like malicious like software. Some pranks, but these were done really quickly, right? Yeah, yeah some of them were done even before he had tweeted them out. So. The one the one that led to the Google Chrome extension. That domain name was registered I think January 31. So a good two weeks before Giuliani even tweeted out that like wrong link. So they have been seeing typos from him and they've been expecting him to make these mistakes. So if people just Caught up like Aaron's typos base around his URL. Yeah. I can say, Wow. Yeah. And like companies like this happens a lot like this is something known as like typo squading. And this happens a lot with like popular websites. That's why like if you're a large company, sometimes you'll buy Domain names that like are similar to yours. So like Facebook, for example, they own Facebook. com. So, if you type it in or just go back to Facebook. Okay. But before they did that, like people would buy those domain names and set up like a fake looking Facebook page. And like people go to. Yeah, this is. Register your information. Yeah. Yeah. So, that happens with popular websites. It usually doesn't happen with A single person's website so. Yeah. But hackers have kinda found out that like, Giuliani makes typos so often that like we should just do this. And errors are so consistent that hackers can bank on that. Yeah basically. Wow!