"Homograph attacks: Don’t believe everything you see"

ESET security researchers have brought attention to homograph attacks, which could potentially pose significant threats to users as it advances the act of spoofing. Fraudulent websites can be designed to appear secure as attackers could convert the usage of HTTP to HTTPs by acquiring a valid SSL/TLS certificate for the false site. Attackers could also replace characters within a URL with Unicode characters from non-Latin writing systems in order for the domain name to look valid at first glance. This article further discusses these attack techniques as demonstrated by a researcher by the name of Xudong Zheng, along with suggestions for avoiding such attacks.  

We Live Security reports "Homograph attacks: Don’t believe everything you see"