Sunday, July 1, 2018

Scammers abuse multilingual domain names

Cyber-criminals are abusing multilingual character sets to trick people into visiting phishing websites.

The non-English characters allow scammers to create "lookalike" sites with domain names almost indistinguishable from legitimate ones.

Farsight Security found scam sites posing as banks, loan advisers and children's brands Lego and Haribo.

Smartphone users are at greater risk as small screens make lookalikes even harder to spot.

Woman using smartphone

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