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Beware: Login Hijack using misspelled URL
While attempting to login the URL was misspelled. tmoblile.com. Https:// was used. It immediately forwarded to a malicious page with audio claiming my computer had been taken over. The URL changed to: xxxjn6g3w. z13.web. core.windows. net/#. Unfortunately, since Tmoblile insists on requiring Edge, or another insecure browser that I don't use. This paste cannot be unlinked, but some spaces have been added. It appears the MBA's have miscalculated when removing communications options where security issues can be reported.
This is about URL's brought and owned by bad actors. Representing accidentally misspelled addresses of know websites from which they might use malicious exploits for monetary benefit. NOT BROWSERS. Perhaps you need to need to enhance your understanding of domain name services (DNS). The list of internet website addresses are not stored in your browser. Excluding temporary use and caches..of course. To put it in lamen's terms. DNS is the phone book of the internet. It takes the URL and matches it up with a IP address to which a request can be routed. The addresses tmobile.com and t-mobile.com are owned by TMobile. Companies don't always buy up alternative top level domains and unintentional misspellings. Most do provide a channel to communicate any exploits that might be used to attack their customers. One technique you can employ, is to only use browsers that allow plugins allowing javascript to be turned off. Which will disable a lot of the dynamic code in the page that can do harm. Security tools are only as good as the latest list of bad actors. To many people panic and follow along with the bad actors instructions because they think they have too. Perhaps I should have said "another less secure browser". I my opinion the gecko (firefox) browser engine is more secure than blink, or webkit.
¡Caramba!
I don’t know which browsers you consider to be insecure other than Edge. I am able to login to my T-Mobile account using both Brave and Opera.
With Chrome and Edge, I use several extensions which seem to do their job: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Malwarebytes Browser Guard.
Don’t forget the hyphen: t-mobile
