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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2018
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EstimatedDays: ----
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug
Team-Security-UX



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Unicode TLDs cause confusion and are a phishers paradise

Reported by syoso...@gmail.com, Mar 8 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Read https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001547431

What is the expected behavior?
N/A

What went wrong?
Phishers successfully confused visitors and attempted a massive crypto-currency heist.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.186  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: 

Decent read about the problem and casually suggested solutions: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/04/faking_domain_n.html. Chrome should take the lead on this one.
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M64
Cc: sindhu.chelamcherla@chromium.org
Components: UI>Browser>Omnibox UI>Security>UrlFormatting
Labels: Triaged-ET TE-NeedsTriageHelp
As this issue is out of TE scope of triaging adding TE-NeedsTriageHelp label for further investigation from dev team.

Tentatively adding UI>Security>UrlFormatting and UI>Browser>Omnibox components. Please remove if they are not appropriate.

Thanks!
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Marking WontFix not because we don't think this is a problem but because we've already been dealing with this for some time.  Chrome has a spoof checker that maps similar-looking characters to each other and prevents Unicode display of domains that look like popular domains.  Bugs on specific cases we don't catch are in-scope.

Long-term we believe this problem is better solved at the registrar level than the browser level.

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