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Kemming is 100 level preparedness.
They need to up their game to cover internationalized homograph vulnerabilities, using roughly similar characters from different international alphabets to create totally different domain names:
example.com
exаmple.com
They look identical but are entirely different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
They "a"s don't look identical at all with a good font like Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, which also very clearly differentiates between
etc..
Well that's just rude
I do have a tendency to check where the link leads before clicking on it, so the difference between those two is quite obvious to me:
http://example.com/vshttp://xn--exmple-4nf.com/, but a lot of people probably do not do that.I would definitely not click on the second one.