Facebook's Phishing Detection Tool Now Recognizes Homograph Attacks

guest · May 3, 2018

Facebook's Phishing Detection Tool Now Recognizes Homograph Attacks
May 3, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ection-tool-now-recognizes-homograph-attacks/

Facebook has updated a phishing detection toolkit it developed two years ago. The update now allows webmasters who sign up for the tool to detect homograph (Unicode-based lookalike) domains created for their websites.
The tool in question is named Certificate Transparency Monitoring, a Facebook-hosted application. Any website owner can sign-up for free for this service using their Facebook account.
Support for homograph attacks
Today, Facebook updated the Certificate Transparency Monitoring tool with a new feature to detect a new type of phishing attack that has become very popular in the past year.
Tool also gets email alerts
Furthermore, Facebook has also added the ability to alert domain owners via email when a new suspected phishing domain pops up in CT logs.

Facebook's devs have a small obsession with detecting phishing attempts, and for a good reason, as they have to guard over 2.2 billion users. In the past, they have added anti-phishing features to Facebook accounts, but have also awarded prizes for novel anti-phishing techniques.
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