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.
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