HARD TO DETECT Phishing attack that affects Chrome, Firefox and Opera

 A Chinese pc security researcher has determined a new phishing attack this is very hard to discover.

The attack makes use of a acknowledged vulnerability in the Chrome, Opera and Firefox browsers that permits using faux domains which include valid websites, which includes Apple, Amazon or Google, that can lead to the theft of account access credentials, statistics from credit score card, and so forth.

This researcher (Xudong Zheng) has created a demo web web page  displaying the vulnerability.

If we open the preceding link with any of the browsers proven, we will see that the valid area Apple.Com appears and secured with the aid of an SSL certificates (HTTPS) but the Web that is displayed is not the Apple Web. This is so, because the characters were replaced by using Unicode characters.

This assault has been recognised when you consider that 2001 and is referred to as a homograph attack.

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