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#1 2017-04-17 14:14:00

Destry
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From: Haut-Rhin
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New Phishing attack: unicode variants of domain.

Spotted this insightful article in Twitter today, Chrome and Firefox Phishing Attack Uses Domains Identical to Known Safe Sites

Talks about a clever use of using unicode characters to spoof a domain and get a Let’s Encrypt cert too, which is then impossible to tell is fake.

Doesn’t affect IE or Safari, but does FF and Chrome. The article gives a fix for FF. No word for Opera.

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#2 2017-04-17 15:22:38

Bloke
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From: Leeds, UK
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Re: New Phishing attack: unicode variants of domain.

Thanks for the info, Destry. I thought this vulnerability had been fixed years ago! Shows what I know…


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#3 2017-04-18 08:22:30

phiw13
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From: Japan
Registered: 2004-02-27
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Re: New Phishing attack: unicode variants of domain.

Bloke wrote #305371:

I thought this vulnerability had been fixed years ago! Shows what I know…

Me thought the same thing when I first heard that news. Puzzled.

Destry wrote #305370:

No word for Opera.

Same behaviour as Chrome of course. Same rendering engine etc.


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