It’s a new week, and there’s another proof of concept for a phishing technique. Last week, we covered a phishing technique for hijacking WhatsApp accounts, and the week before that we reported on a ...

The risks around IDN Homographs are “significant and growing” according to research by Farsight Security. Its research around IDN lookalike domain names (also called Homographs) over a 12-month period ...

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with ...

The team from Phish.ai has developed and released a Google Chrome extension that can detect when users are accessing domains spelled using non-standard Unicode characters and warn the users about the ...

Researchers have warned of a major phishing threat posed by domain names spoofed using International Domain Name (IDN) homographs. Attackers can use IDN characters to mimic Latin script, and thus lure ...

While trying to catch up with a huge backlog of recent email and potential blog topics, I came across this article that Graham Cluley posted a few days ago on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ...

Facebook has updated a phishing detection toolkit it developed two years ago. The update now allows webmasters who sign up for the tool to detect homograph (Unicode-based lookalike) domains created ...