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How to protect your devices from homoglyph trickery online

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UPDATE - follow-up to Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: Digital security experts are warning users to look closer at web addresses after a rise in clever phishing tricks that use lookalike letters from different alphabets. Bad actors set up fake websites using special characters that look just like normal English letters to trick people into giving away passwords and personal data. To stay safe online, experts suggest using password managers that fill in the correct web address automatically, and always checking the full URL before clicking links in emails or text messages.

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