Homoglyph domains still bypass Chromium's anti-typosquatting checks
Researchers at Have I Been Squatted showed that a domain like "аррӏө.com" using Cyrillic lookalikes slips past Chromium's protections and appears as apple.com. The character "ө" is missing from the browser's list of 29 blocked Cyrillic homoglyphs.
- The domain "аррӏө.com" passes Chromium checks and mimics apple.com
- The "ө" character is absent from the browser's list of 29 Cyrillic homoglyphs
- Chromium caught 64.1% of lookalike domains in a 2020 study
- HIBS advises registering lookalike domains and adopting passkeys
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