Homoglyph Attack

Security & Threats
A type of phishing attack using domain names with characters that look similar to legitimate characters, such as using "rn" to look like "m" or using Cyrillic characters that resemble Latin letters.
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A type of phishing attack using domain names with characters that look similar to legitimate characters, such as using "rn" to look like "m" or using Cyrillic characters that resemble Latin letters.

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