Phishing Campaign Exploits Japanese Character “ん” to Imitate Forward Slash

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Phishing Campaign Exploits Japanese Character “ん” to Imitate Forward Slash Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated new phishing campaign that exploits the Japanese hiragana character “ん” to create deceptively authentic-looking URLs that can fool even vigilant internet users. The attack, firstidentifiedby security researcher JAMESWT, represents a significant evolution in homograph attacks that leverage visual similarities between characters from different Unicode sets. The malicious c...

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