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Convincing Google Impersonation Opens Door to MiTM, Phishing

Researcher Avi Lumelsky set out to see how easy it would be to set up a phishing page that used homographics to impersonate legitimate sites. Homographic characters look like ASCII letters, but their encoding is different, in a way that is usually not noticeable for the human eye. He used a few years ago someone bought the homographic-including ..oogle.com to use it for phishing purposes. He found the process to be so simple that a basic search resulted in a dozen suggestions for available domain names.

Source: https://threatpost.com/convincing-google-impersonation-opens-door-to-mitm-phishing/153745/

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