McAfee lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 133 domains that resemble McAfee since February 2026, 55 of them in the last 90 days. They split between combosquats (53%) and typosquats (41%). .com carries 69% of them, out of 21 endings in all. The pace has picked up, with 43 in the last 30 days against 3 in the 30 before. The busiest week began 21 September 2026, with 16 new ones. 137 certificates for unregistered .ph, .com.ph, .net.ph names (registry wildcard) are excluded: the registry answers for any name under those endings, so nobody had to register one to get a certificate for it.
Data as of . Public sources only.
What kind of lookalikes
One or two keystrokes away from the real name: a letter dropped, doubled, swapped or mistyped. More
A letter swapped for one that looks the same, in ASCII or in Unicode written as punycode. More
Words most often added to the name in the last 90 days: activate (6), support (6), help (3), secure (3).
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-06-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-06-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 2026-09-21 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| 2026-09-28 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-10-05 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 21 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 92 | 69.2% |
| .me | 5 | 3.8% |
| .us | 4 | 3.0% |
| .co.uk | 3 | 2.3% |
| .net | 3 | 2.3% |
| .org | 3 | 2.3% |
| .site | 3 | 2.3% |
| .co | 2 | 1.5% |
Where they are registered
For the 97 with a registrar in WHOIS (73% of all). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by brands themselves, so a domain there is more likely the brand's own than an imitation.
| Registrar | Lookalikes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corsearch | 29 | 29.9% | Brand protection |
| GoDaddy | 8 | 8.3% | Retail |
| Gname | 6 | 6.2% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 5 | 5.1% | Retail |
| Cosmotown | 4 | 4.1% | Retail |
| Gransy | 4 | 4.1% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 3 | 3.1% | Retail |
| Spaceship | 3 | 3.1% | Retail |
What the live ones do
21 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 12 (57%) served a website and 9 (43%) publish MX records, so they can receive email. Checks run on the higher-severity matches that resolve, not on every lookalike.
Google Web Risk lists none of the 9 live ones checked against it.
10 were tracked while live and 0 have since gone down. See what to do about a lookalike.
Recent examples
The 10 most recent, written with [.] so they cannot be clicked. The brand's own domains and registrations held by brand-protection registrars are left out. A lookalike resembles McAfee; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
mcafeeactivate[.]comCombo, Oct 12No site or mail when checkedmcafeehelpdesk[.]orgCombo, Oct 9No site or mail when checkedmcafeeactivatekey[.]comCombo, Oct 6No site or mail when checkedmcafeesupports[.]orgCombo, Oct 5Serves a websitemyaccountmcafee[.]comCombo, Oct 4Serves a websiteMX recordsmcafeesecure[.]roCombo, Oct 2Serves a websiteMX recordsmcafeesupport[.]shopCombo, Oct 1Not checkedmcafeesecure[.]storeCombo, Oct 1Not checkedmcafeesupport[.]siteCombo, Oct 1Not checkedmcafeesupport[.]helpCombo, Sep 30Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with McAfee. Domains listed resemble McAfee by spelling; registration alone says nothing about intent. Counts cover domains first seen in public Certificate Transparency logs and ICANN zone files; domains that Greyphish customers watch are excluded.