Punycode

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2017
Homograph Phishing Attacks are almost impossible to detect on major browsers

The Chinese security Xudong Zheng is warning of Homograph Phishing Attacks are “almost impossible to detect” also to experts. The Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng has devised a phishing technique that is “almost impossible to detect.” Hackers can exploit a known vulnerability in the popular web browsers Chrome, Firefox and Opera to display to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016
Phishing campaign on Office 365 Business users leverages Punycode

Security researchers discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Punycode and a bug in Office 365 defense systems to deceive victims. Office 365 business email users continue to be the target of phishing campaigns, a new wave of attacks was leveraging Punycode to avoid detection of Microsoft’s default security and desktop email filters. Punycode is a method added […]