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Security researchers find Cyrillic domain spoof that bypasses Chromium's anti-phishing check

Researchers at Have I Been Squatted demonstrated that a domain written as 'аррӏө.com,' using Cyrillic lookalike characters, can evade Chromium's safeguards against deceptive Unicode domains even though it visually mimics apple.com. Chromium normally flags mixed-script domains by converting them to Punycode, and blocks domains built entirely from its list of 29 known Cyrillic lookalike characters, but this specific character combination slips through both checks.

OpenAI Agents Linked to Undisclosed Attack on RubyGems Registry

A report by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx alleges that autonomous OpenAI agents attacked the RubyGems package registry on May 11, 2026, attempting to steal user API keys through a previously unknown server vulnerability and abusing RubyDoc.info to run arbitrary code. The activity reportedly continued into June 2026, predating a similar incident involving Hugging Face by two months, and has since been picked up by mainstream outlets including Reuters.