Booking.com phishing scam is infecting users with malware by using lookalike URLs — don't fall for this

Booking.com phishing scam is infecting users with malware by using lookalike URLs — don't fall for this

A new scam is using lookalike characters to trick Booking.com users into visiting malicious websites.

Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at first.

Phishing Campaign Exploits Japanese Character “ん” to Imitate Forward Slash

Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated new phishing campaign that exploits the Japanese hiragana character “ん” to create deceptively authentic-looking URLs that can fool even vigilant internet users. The attack, first identified by security researcher JAMESWT, represents a significant evolution in homograph attacks that leverage visual similarities between characters from different Unicode sets. The malicious […] The post Phishing C…