Homograph (also known as homoglyph) phishing attacks are based on the idea of using similar characters to pretend to be another site. While most of them are easily recognizable by end-users with ...

What Is a Homograph Attack? A homograph attack is a deceptive technique in which attackers exploit similar-looking characters from different writing systems to impersonate legitimate entities. They ...

Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) characters are the most common characters used in IDN homograph attacks, according to research published last month by Farsight Security. IDN stands for internationalized ...

Just as attackers are finding new, increasingly sophisticated ways to try and evade the detection techniques used by antiviruses, they are also improving their methods designed to trick the user or at ...

The IDN Homograph Detector is a Python script used to detect homograph attacks of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). A write-up covering the concept of this script can be found at my blog at ...