I am Muhammad Habib and this post will be about “internationalized domain name” or IDN Homograph attack . We will be attacking a browser supporting IDNA to perform a phising attack . First things first: What are homographs ? Here’s a simple example… for the coders there… There’s a prank in....
Thanks for sharing! Here is what I have learned about IDN homograph attack from the company I work at. IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) homograph attacks are a type of phishing attack that involves using characters from non-Latin scripts (such as Greek, Cyrillic, or Chinese) that are visually similar to Latin characters. For example, an attacker could create a domain name using Greek characters that looks almost identical to a legitimate domain name written in Latin characters. The purpose of this attack is to trick people into visiting a fake website that appears to be a legitimate one, with the goal… Read more »