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How to protect your browser from Unicode domain phishing attacks

Phishers and online crooks are only too happy to take advantage of an IDN Homograph attack. Chrome browser extensions and plugins can warn you when you visit a website with an internationalized domain name. The of pple.com is actually a Cyrillic (U+0430) rather than the. ASCII character a rather than. ASCII characters. Some browsers are now displaying the URL in the browser bar in its Punycode form. Chrome users may benefit from making a change to Firefox users’ browser settings.”]

Source: https://grahamcluley.com/protect-browser-unicode-domain-phishing-attacks/

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