Posted on 04/18/2017 12:13:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is a Wordfence public service security announcement for all users of Chrome and Firefox web browsers:
There is a phishing attack that is receiving much attention today in the security community.
As a reminder: A phishing attack is when an attacker sends you an email that contains a link to a malicious website. You click on the link because it appears to be trusted. Merely visiting the website may infect your computer or you may be tricked into signing into the malicious site with credentials from a site you trust. The attacker then has access to your username, password and any other sensitive information they can trick you into providing.
This variant of a phishing attack uses unicode to register domains that look identical to real domains. These fake domains can be used in phishing attacks to fool users into signing into a fake website, thereby handing over their login credentials to an attacker.
This affects the current version of Chrome browser, which is version 57.0.2987 and the current version of Firefox, which is version 52.0.2. This does not affect Internet Explorer or Safari browsers.
We created our own example to demonstrate how an attacker can register their own domain that looks identical to another company’s domain in the browser. We decided to imitate a healthcare site called ‘epic.com’ by registering our own fake site. You can visit our demo site here in Chrome or Firefox. For comparison you can click here to visit the real epic.com.
Here is what the real epic.com looks like in Chrome:
(Excerpt) Read more at wordfence.com ...
At the top of your screen is the open space where you type in the internet address you want to go to. That is the location bar. Right now mine says: wwwfreerepublic.com/perl/post?id.....
You just put your curson in that box & type the config comand and press enter. You will get a warning that any changes you make will affect foxfire etc.
Accept that, search for the puny term as specified in the article. Click on the line containing the term, in the column that says false, and false will change to true.
Exit by closing the window & check the article to see if the fix worked. There is a link to their false website in a later paragraph in the article and it will show the strange characters instead of the original website name if you were successful.
You're pulling our legs, aren't you? Or did you write this version, yourself?
Hmm...the update was issued today, version 52.0.2 for FF. I followed the instructions per the article above and did not see any such thing about parameters.
“Nutmeg” should be “Nougat”
Clearly, too much cocaine today but at least the “N” was correct
What "such thing" did you not see? I just downloaded Firefox 52.0.2 and the parameter network.IDN_show_punycode is there.
bookmark
LOL — cocaine starts with C, not N...
At any rate, I’m sticking with NarshNallow on my phone!
(was just joshing you, hope you know...)
Just type it where you would normally type a URL.
bkmk
Thanks to Tolerance Sucks Rocks for the ping!!
https://www.xn--e1awd7f.com/
well I found it listed but there’s no way to change it from false to true.
Double-click on “false.” It should become “true.” That’s what I had to do.
That means you have apparently succeeded.
FYI
And all Chrome And Firefox users
Ok..will try that..thanks.
Ok...got it! Thanks again so much!
Thanks! Hope none of us gets phished!
Amen!
Thanks for posting this. That’s a very clever phishing trick... I’ve fixed my browsers and more importantly, my wife’s browsers.
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