Attackers are using "rnicrosoft.com" typosquatting to impersonate Microsoft and steal credentials. Learn how this subtle visual trick bypasses user awareness.

A sophisticated phishing campaign is currently leveraging a subtle typographical trick to bypass user vigilance, deceiving victims into handing over sensitive login credentials. Attackers utilize the domain “rnicrosoft.com” to impersonate the tech giant.

By replacing the letter ‘m’ with the combination of ‘r’ and ‘n’, fraudsters create a visual doppleganger that is nearly indistinguishable from the legitimate domain at a casual glance.

This technique, known as typosquatting, relies heavily on the font rendering used in modern email clients and web browsers.

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    29·
    20 hours ago

    I get a weird feeling about this. Like, you know… That is so stupid that I cant wrap my mind around it to understand how would it work. But then, I also understand that people are dumb and pay no attention to anything, mindlessly clicking “Accept all” on cookies and notification requests from shady websites.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      41·
      12 hours ago

      You were up late last night because your kid was sick, but you still had to be up at 5:30 to take your other kid to day care before driving an hour to work. You get to the office and it looks like your computer had an update last night and so you need to verify your login credentials. You’ve been on about 4 hours of sleep a night for the past week and just want to get on with your day.

      People are overworked and exhausted, so stuff like that is bound to work on someone

    • scintilla@crust.piefed.socialEnglish
      51·
      14 hours ago

      Fuck off with this shit. Get off your damn high horse and look at the fucking images. If you aren’t aware people with vision problems exist I suggest you go talk to people IRL more. This is leaving aside the elderly who can have vision problems on top of likely being less tech aware than most younger people simply because it wasn’t a thing when they were younger so it was never part of their life in the same way that it is for most under 50.

    • MalMen@monero.town
      3·
      17 hours ago

      Even if you pay attention to that details you are not allways 100% aware… This week I almost fall for a SMS fiahing payment… The payment amount and message made sense when I read it, I was on my bank to make the payment and get ridnof that task… Only stoped by chance when I saw that other fishing attems on same SMS thread