A new credit card skimming campaign making use of homoglyph techniques has been connected to an existing Magecart threat group. Homoglyph attacks may sound complicated, but they are extremely simple ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hackers who want to separate you from your bitcoin know what a ...

On Monday, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) said a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a court order that requires domain registrars to disable websites "used to impersonate ...

Microsoft has secured a court order to take down several malicious “homoglyph” domains that were used to impersonate Office 365 customers and commit fraud. The technology giant filed a case earlier ...

With the holiday season upon us and online goods and services flying off the virtual shelves, companies should not lose sight of the increased risk of phishing and cyberattacks. Society’s reliance on ...

Hackers are abusing a new technique: combining homoglyph domains with favicons to conduct credit card skimming attacks. Sophisticated skimming attacks like Magecart have incorporated favicons before ...

Verisign, which operates the .com and .net registries has deployed changes to its rules to prevent registration of bogus, lookalike domain names using Unicode International Phonetic Alphabet Extension ...