Most browsers affected except Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The state of homograph attacks. International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Desscription: In December 2001, a paper was released describing Homograph attacks [1]. This new attack allows an attacker/phisher to spoof the domain/URLs of businesses. At the time this paper was written, no browsers had implemented Unicode/UTF8 domain name resolution.
Test URL: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/
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