Microsoft has detailed some legal activity that it is engaged in to restrict the use of malicious infrastructure such as typosquatted domains — called «homoglyphs» — that are used for impersonation.
Back in May, Microsoft warned of a widespread gift card scam using a phishing technique called business email compromise (BEC) to get access to business information or to steal money. In this particular campaign, attackers were targeting various industries including real estate, consumer goods, agriculture, and more by using typosquatted domains to trick recipients into thinking that emails come from people they know. Now, the Redmond tech giant has highlighted that it is fighting legal battles to ensure that it is not possible to use imposter domains in cyberattacks. Microsoft says that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) secured a court order on July 16 to take down digital infrastructure being utilized by malicious actors.
