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Q & A Security · September 3, 2026

What is the difference between typosquatting and a homoglyph attack?

Typosquatting is the umbrella term. A homoglyph attack is one family under that umbrella — specifically, substituting a character with one that looks visually identical or near-identical (e.g., Cyrillic ‘а’ for Latin ‘a’, digit ‘1’ for lowercase ‘l’, or zero for uppercase ‘O’). When homoglyphs cross scripts (Latin ↔ Cyrillic ↔ Greek), the attack is called an IDN homograph attack and is encoded on the wire as punycode.

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What Is Typosquatting? (And How Zscaler Found 30,000 Lookalikes)
Typosquatting turns a spelling mistake into an attack surface. Zscaler ThreatLabz recorded 30,000+ lookalike domains targeting the top brands in a single 6-month window — roughly 200 per brand. Homoglyph, TLD-swap, brand-suffix, punycode. Every family explained, with the MyEtherWallet punycode incident as the canonical case.