Microsoft Office apps – including Outlook and Teams – are vulnerable to homograph attacks based on internationalized domain names (IDNs). In practice, this means that users hovering above a link in a phishing email, a Word or Excel document they have receieved, or a message sent via Teams, can’t tell that it will direct them to a spoofed malicious domain that’s not what it purports to be. “Users, who are trained to validate a link … More
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