Homograph Attack

Difficulty: Advanced

Question

What is a homograph attack?

Answer

Using similar-looking characters from different alphabets to create a deceptive URL (e.g., using a Cyrillic 'а' instead of a Latin 'a' in `apple.com`).

Concepts covered

Phishing, DNS, Unicode

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