Increase in Homographic Phishing Attacks
Recent media reporting highlights a threefold increase in homographic phishing attacks over the past fourteen months.
Homographic attacks have been widely known about for many years, and rely on the fact there are visual similarities between many different Unicode characters to spoof well-known web addresses using similar-looking Punycode domains. For example, by registering the Unicode domain “www.xn--googl-z8a.com” an attacker would be in…
Link: Weekly Threat Report 28th April 2017
Source: NCSC Reports
