2026-10-27 18:17 UTC
Kemming is 100 level preparedness.
They need to up their game to cover internationalized 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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Replies (3)
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@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-27 21:07
Well that’s just rude
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@BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 00:46
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/ vs http://xn–exmple-4nf.com/, but a lot of people probably do not do that. I would definitely not click on the second one.
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@Jack@lemmy.ca 2026-10-28 15:21
They look identical but are entirely different. They "a"s don’t look identical with a good font like Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, which also clear differentiates between 0 and O, I and l, etc…