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Punycode

But thats just half the work.

The other half means getting people to visit the site.

Magnifying glass enlarging the word �malware� in computer machine code

To do that - the crooks create malicious Google Ads.

Punycode is an encoding standard built for internationalized domain names.

With Punycode, the websites true URL - “xneepass-vbb.info” would be displayed as “keepass.info”.

Malwarebytes notified Google of the trick and the search engine giant removed the malicious campaign.

ViaBleepingComputer

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