What geeks call an International Domain Name Homograph Attack, the general public calls typo-squatting. This is when threat actors buy domain names that are close to popular ones hoping to trick users, examples:

• gma1l.com instead of gmail.com

• paypa1.com instead of paypal

To help protect users from these tricksters, Google is launching Navigation suggestions for lookalike URLs. Think of this as an AI powered auto-correct for URLs. This feature is in active experimentation in Canary 70 and should enter the mainstream version in the coming months. A google engineer even spoke about it at the Usenix conference.

If you are one of the courageous experimenters running Canary, you can enable this feature now using this flag:

chrome://flags/#enable-lookalike-url-navigation-suggestions