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Re: ⚠️ How Scammer tried to Hack my Bitcointalk and how to Protect yourself?⚠️
by
bob123
on 08/08/2019, 09:25:50 UTC
Code:
k.oгgtest
Firefox turns it into this:
Code:
http://www.k.xn--ogtest-pof/
What kind of sorcery is this?

That's no sorcery, but IDNA encoding.

The following cyrillic letter is the cause of that:
Code:
г

This is quite frequently used by phishing sites to deceive others into clicking on a 'known' URL.
That's a known problem with unicode domain names.