According to the latest ESET threat report, published today, blockchain.com is amongst the three most impersonated domains when it comes to homoglyph attacks. Homoglyph attacks are one example of a gourmet cybercrime classic that has been making something of a revival recently. A homoglyph attack, therefore, is one that exploits these similarities by replacing one with the other when registering a domain. Mitigating the homoglyph attack threatThere are, thankfully, several mitigations when it comes to this attack surface. Until all domain registries follow this lead, however, homoglyph attacks are likely to remain a concern moving forward.

Source: Forbes April 30, 2020 09:45 UTC