According to Romania-based cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, in its latest “Threat Debrief” report dated Aug 24, 2002, out of the top 10 spoofed domains, 4 are now crypto-related. The sole Bitcoin wallet provider blockchain.com even represents more than 50% of attacks, facebook.com accounting for only 9%, and paypal.com 4%.

One of the most common methods used by cyber-criminals, dubbed “Homograph Phishing Attacks”, is based on International Domain Names (IDN). “Homograph attacks abuse similarities between characters from the three major European alphabets (Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek),” the cybersecurity company explained in June. A typical example would be to register microsofť.com, where the classic “t” is replaced by “t’”, a slight difference most users would not notice, leading them to believe that they are on a legit website.

Back in 2020, Bitdefender had already warned that “spoofing and domain impersonation still remain one of the biggest problems in cybersecurity, as criminals utilize lookalike domains, common misspellings and other trickery to fuel their criminal activity.”

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https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/bitdefender-threat-debrief-august-2022