Luckily the malware laden code wont do much harm as this was part of an experiment.
University of Hamburg student Nikolai Philipp Tschacher was conducting an experiment as part of his bachelor thesis.
Typosquatting technique has been used by hackers and cyber criminals since the dawn of Internet era.
Another variation was introduced by security researcher Artem Dinaburg in 2011.
Tschacher based his attacked on Bitsquatting.
Tschachers script also provided a warning that informed developers that they may have inadvertently installed the wrong package.
source: www.techworm.net
