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by stragies 1612 days ago
For looking up relevant further material, this is called a 'homograph' or 'homoglyph attack'.

It was also popular for site-spoofing by sending links with these cyrillic character to lead people to a fake bank/search_engine page, until that became widely used, and then owners of the tech-stack (browsers, registrars, dns-operators, etc) shut down this attack vector mostly.