/PunycodePhishingChecker

A simple chrome extension that checks the current tab's url to prevent punycode phishing attacks.

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PunycodePhishingChecker

is a simple chrome extension that checks whether the current tab's url is punycode decodable or not. This is just to prevent the punycode phishing technique that was explained here: http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/unicode-Punycode-phishing-attack.html.

if we believe that the website is using this phishing technique a message on top of the page will be shown.

Unsafe message

How to install

  1. Download release.rar file.
  2. Extract the content.
  3. Go to Chrome Extension Manager.
  4. Enable Chrome Developer Mode.
  5. Choose Load unpacked extension.
  6. Locate the extracted folder. How to install in chrome