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Re:Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clo... by krallja on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:17AM (#14120788)
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120372 - this example uses all-Cyrillic
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Re:Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clo... by beaconstudios on Saturday April 15, 2017 @08:38PM (#14123700)
the point is that is reduces the number of potential variations. There would only be 1 or 2 possible visually-identical phishing domains for any latin domain, as opposed to potentially hundreds or thousands as it stands now.
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