URL Character Obfuscation
Characters in the link's web address are swapped for look-alikes, hidden, or encoded, such as a Cyrillic "а" for a Latin "a", so it reads as a different site. The difference can be invisible.
Also known as
- Aliases
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- punycode phishing
- homograph attack
- IDN homograph attack
- homoglyph attack
- IDN spoofing
- Named examples
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- Z-WASP
Mapped to
MITRE ATT&CK®