But this other kind of phishing scheme -- called a homograph attack -- sends an email from a URL that looks nearly identical to the real thing, replacing some the letters with similar ones from ...

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When a hacker or scammer uses these identical letters to trick people into thinking a malicious link or website is real, it’s called a homograph attack, says Bitdefender, a cybersecurity company.

And it’s 22 times more popular than “homophone” and 66 times more popular than “homograph.” Is “synonym” the leader simply because it’s more useful? Or is it possible that people ...