More than a dozen dodgy websites spotted masquerading as the real deal, HTTPS certs and all
What's old is new again as infosec bods are sounding the alarm over a fresh wave of homoglyph characters being used to lure victims to malicious fake websites.
Researchers at Soluble today said they worked with Verisign to thwart the registration of domain names that use homoglyphs – non-Latin characters that look just like letters of the Latin alphabet – to masquerade as legit domains.
First reported back in the 2000s, this technique allow miscreants to use characters that, when displayed in the browser bar, appear to show the URL of a valid site – such as Apple.com or Google.com – despite being a ..
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