Re:Unicode in five minutes (2013)
by pacaro on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:44AM
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If you're interested in this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
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Also recently spotted as an avenue for attack in the wild:
Magecart group uses homoglyph attacks to fool you into visiting malicious websites: https://www.zdnet.com/article/magecart-group-uses-homoglyph-...
Homoglyph attacks used in phishing campaign and Magecart attacks https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/106916/hacking/homoglyp...
You can easily avoid homoglyph attacks or similar stuff by following the relevant unicode security considerations. I'm on
Moderately Restrictive level for General Security Profile for identifiers.
http://perl11.org/blog/unicode-identifiers.html
Forbidding mixed scripts fixes this attack. You also need to normalized names, and a few more minor things.