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An advanced phishing attack can be incredibly hard to detect. Here's an example of a browser vulnerability that allowed malicious sites to spoof legitimate looking domains. It's been fixed since then, but it's a constant battle between fixing exploits and new ones being found. A sophisticated operator can come up with ways to trick even the most tech savvy user, and most users will fall for more obvious tricks than that.
There's a new similar phishing attack thanks to Google and their .zip domain. Web browsers support a feature that lets you use addresses of the form
protocol://username:password@domain.tld{.text}. That feature allows you to log in todomain.tld{.text} with the given credentials. When you combine that with Unicode forward slashes, you can craft addresses that look likehttps://microsoft.com/files/@windowsupdate.zip{.text}, where the part betweenhttps://{.text} and@{.text} is a username and the part after@{.text} is the actual address most likely used for malicious intends. My example uses normal slashes, so will lead to Microsoft's website and page not found error.windowsupdate.zip{.text} is a domain someone has registered, but leads to no-where as of today. PSA: Don't go to random web addresses you find on the Internet or elsewhere.Oh yes, the Latin vs. Cyrillic characters trick! Now that you mention it, I remember watching a YouTube video about this. Scary shit.
Homoglyph attacks!
How is this shit not fixed yet? That's literally undetectable phishing
It is fixed, if you follow one of their example links you should see a warning now. I was using it as an example of how there can be hard to detect exploits.
EDIT: it's fixed in Chrome. Just tried Firefox and they don't have a warning ๐