With global ransomware cyber-attacks on the rise, sophisticated phishing campaigns are just one of the key factors accelerating the growth of online fraud. As organizational awareness of potential ...

A Google Ads campaign was found pushing a fake KeePass download site that used Punycode to appear as the official domain of the KeePass password manager to distribute malware. Google has been battling ...

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard ...

Facepalm: Punycode is an encoding technique designed to represent Unicode characters within the simpler ASCII character set. When used in conjunction with web addresses, Punycode characters provide ...

Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Opera are vulnerable to a new variation of an older attack that allows phishers to register and pass fake domains as the websites of legitimate services, such as ...

The way Chrome, Firefox, and Opera handle special characters in URLs may be exploited to set up a website with a URL that looks exactly the same as a reputable website, Bleeping Computer reported.

Facebook has obtained the transfer of ‘xn--facbook-ts4c.com’ from a cybersquatter Punycode domains should be assessed using both their browser-translated appearance and the address itself On this ...

Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive ...

A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion around Japanese domains and how Google may treat them. Honestly, I know very little about this topic, so I hope I do justice to this thread. Example of ...

How good are you at telling the difference between domain names you know and trust and impostor or look-alike domains? The answer may depend on how familiar you are with the nuances of ...