Lookalike Letters Could Help Attackers Impersonate Popular Websites in Chromium Browsers

A report from The Register describes a typosquatting technique that relies on just two characters. Attackers are abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites, and the issue affects Chromium browsers.

Typosquatting means registering a web address that looks almost identical to a legitimate one, so that people visiting it assume they are on the real site. Swapping in letters from a different alphabet that look similar to familiar ones can make a fake address very hard to spot by eye.

The source summary does not give technical details, so we cannot say which brands or sites are affected or whether a fix is planned. Chromium is the engine behind many popular browsers, so businesses should treat lookalike addresses as a realistic risk when staff click links in emails, messages or search results.