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 ...

How do you spot a phishing scam when the URL looks perfectly legit? An old phishing technique has recently popped back up in the news, and it has the potential to fool some folks no matter how many ...

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with ...

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 team from Phish.ai has developed and released a Google Chrome extension that can detect when users are accessing domains spelled using non-standard Unicode characters and warn the users about the ...

A reader texted VERIFY with a screenshot that warned of a particularly deceptive strategy used by hackers. It included what appeared to be two examples of the same banking website URLs — except one of ...

This new phishing scheme uses lookalike characters (homographs) to trick users into thinking a malicious URL is legit. Scammers use the Japanese hiragana character "ん" and rely on the assumption that ...

It’s a new week, and there’s another proof of concept for a phishing technique. Last week, we covered a phishing technique for hijacking WhatsApp accounts, and the week before that we reported on a ...

A common piece of advice for identifying malicious links in emails or text messages is to look closely at the web address itself, such as by hovering over the URL before clicking through. Now, threat ...