Browser phishing technique (that FF2 is not vulnerable to)

[Nomen]

From the "older is better / more secure but they won't tell you that" department:

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This Phishing Attack is Almost Impossible to Detect On Chrome, Firefox and Opera

http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html

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Firefox 2 renders the example URL (as displayed in the location bar) as this:

https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/

Opera 12.02 renders the URL as a not-quite-right looking apple.com (looks like appie.com).

 

[Lecco]

Pale Moon 25+26 on XP behave the same way.

FF52 on XP (same system as above) :

I don't have all the Unicode fonts installed so this might have something to do with it.