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Customer context: beware the homoglyph attack

ID: 8c6f369f-5318-57ff-b823-4030e40d8364

STIX ID: report--8c6f369f-5318-57ff-b823-4030e40d8364

Feed Name: Expel Blog

Threat Score
30/100

Date Published: 2023-05-16

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: Paul Lawrence; Roger Studner

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This report describes a red-team homoglyph phishing test where attackers registered ạcmehome.com (using a Vietnamese ‘ạ’ instead of a Latin ‘a’) to impersonate acmehome.com. Expel detected the technique during a follow-up test by applying customer-context (CCTX) rules in their platform, demonstrating how content-driven detection and analyst tooling can mitigate homoglyph domain phishing risks and highlighting the broader threat homoglyphs pose to SOCs and brand protection.

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