We apply Zero Trust to web links so people don't have to "stay vigilant”. Every person should be able to open links inside any app without relying on luck.
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It’s time for a new way to spot & avoid online impersonators inside any mobile app or service: Messages including SMS and iMessage, Mail, Gmail, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, QR Codes…
All without opening a link
Zero Trust for URLs
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A reminder that scams don’t take holidays.
WhatsApp New Year greeting messages carrying phishing links and malicious APKs. One tap installs malware. Data is stolen. Banking fraud follows.
No exploit. No zero-day. Just a trusted link.
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$3.3M lost. No malware. No breach.
Just phishing and impersonation convincing enough to redirect payments.
This is what link trust failure looks like in the public sector.
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Extortion is the second act of phishing.
PornHub reported extortion demands linked to analytics data allegedly sourced from a phishing-enabled third-party breach.
Once data is exposed, the damage compounds.
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New EU PSD3 regulation raises fraud liability for banks and payment providers
Most digital fraud begins with phishing
Today’s security can’t protect people from unreported phishing threats
Zero Trust for links delivers upstream protection
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Someone replied to a LinkedIn post with a tool they believe can stop phishing by rewriting links and scanning them at click time. It can’t. New links have no history or signals for detection to analyse. That’s why people are still told to stay vigilant.
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✍🏻 New blog post: a look at how phishing began in the mid-1990s, how trust on the web was built, lost, and is now being rebuilt.
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Palo Alto’s new report calls a global smishing campaign “sophisticated.” It’s not. It’s the same phishing problem that’s existed for decades - fake links leading to fake websites.
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Protect your crypto on mobile with our new service - it authenticates only legit crypto websites — check out our demo where only the official Binance site is authenticated. Say goodbye to phishing scams with URL Authenticator.
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Phishing by SMS didn't really occur much before 2019.
“Pakistan has become the latest target of a threat actor called the Smishing Triad, marking the first expansion of its footprint beyond the E.U., Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and the U.S.”
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