Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) characters are the most common characters used in IDN homograph attacks, according to research published last month by Farsight Security. IDN stands for internationalized ...

How do you spot a phishing scam when the URL looks perfectly legit? An old phishing technique has recently popped back up in the news, and it has the potential to fool some folks no matter how many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just as attackers are finding new, increasingly sophisticated ways to try and evade the detection techniques used by antiviruses, they are also improving their methods designed to trick the user or at ...

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 ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

When is an “a” not necessary the “a” you think it is? When a browser shows it as part of the URL in the location or smart-search field. Due to the late entry of non-Roman characters to domain names, a ...

Some perfectly authentic looking web addresses are not what they seem and not all browsers are taking the problem seriously Here’s a challenge for you: you click on ...