KnowBe4 - Microsoft Takes Down Homoglyph Domains

Microsoft Takes Down Domains

Microsoft has taken legal action to shut down eighteen domains that were being used in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The sites in question used homoglyphs to impersonate Microsoft websites. Homoglyphs are characters that visually resemble other characters, like the Cyrillic “Н” and the Roman “H,” but which in fact are distinct, and are so coded.



from KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/microsoft-takes-down-homoglyph-domains

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