[UA-EAI] Final version: “Considerations for Naming Internationalized Email Mailboxes”

[Jiankang Yao]

Hello Arnt,

   What you mentioned is one kind of phishing. It is easy to be recognized via checking the email address.
   Visual similarity of the string is not easy to be recognized.
    for an example,

     


you can get more information from here 
https://www.wandera.com/punycode-attacks/ 


Best Regards



Jiankang Yao

From: Arnt Gulbrandsen
Date: 2020-09-22 15:56
To: 
CC: ua-eai
Subject: Re: [UA-EAI]Final version: “Considerations for Naming Internationalized Email Mailboxes”
On Tuesday 22 September 2020 04:52:01 CEST, Jiankang Yao wrote:
> Do we need to add some discussion about "visual similarity of 
> the string " to reduce the phising attack?

IMO no.

Phishing attacks don't rely on that, anyway. They send mail from addresses 
like these:

   From: Amazon Security Team <fjhkasdgfhj at jsdfkff.ea>
   From: Amazon <info at amazoncsteam.kadingabob.tw>
   From: Amazon Customer Service <amazon45432135 at outlook.com>
   From: Amazon <info at amazon-security-team2.in>

Judging by how much effort the phishers put into the styling and logos in 
the message body, and how little they put into the choice of domain, visual 
domain similarity seems like a very minor factor.

Arnt
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