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Cyber-criminals are abusing multilingual domains to lure web users to phishing sites

By James Barnley   Posted in Cyber Security
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The Farsight Security report has reported that Cyber-criminals are abusing multilingual domains to lure web users to phishing sites. They looked at more than 100 million domain names that use non-English character sets – introduced to make the net more familiar and usable for non-English speaking nations – and found about 27% of them had been …

Phishing attacks using IDNs are hard to block

By James Barnley   Posted in Governance
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Chrome and Firefox developers in an attempt to find a balance between showing internationalized domain names and protecting users from phishing are sounding an alarm that phishing attacks that using internationalised domains are hard to block. The latest version of Google Chrome, released earlier this week, restricts how domain names that use non-Latin characters are …