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How to protect yourself from lookalike website text scams
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Representative image · PexelsUPDATE - follow-up to Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: Digital security experts are warning internet users to stay alert against homoglyph attacks, a clever trick where hackers use lookalike letters from different alphabets to build fake web addresses that fool unsuspecting visitors. Because these fraudulent links can mimic trusted websites down to the exact character to the human eye, security researchers recommend using password managers and bookmarking frequently visited pages instead of clicking links found in emails or search results.
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