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2 Characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers: Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites (haveibeensquatted.com)
submitted 1 week ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1457701/2-characters-open-up-a-world-of-typosquatting-opportunities-in-chromium-browsers-attacke

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

This is why it's important to use bookmarks and never trust an unexpected link sent to you via e.g. email and don't trust search results to be genuine. I once watched a family member search "Gmail" and click the first sponsored link. It sent them to "g.maìl.com" or something (I don't remember the exact link) with a phishing lookalike login page. Many people search every time or trust a normal looking link instead of using bookmarks which is a huge risk unfortunately in 2026 with sponsored links and domain manipulation