Cloaking, Detonation, and Client-side Phishing Detection

Today, most browsers integrate security services that attempt to protect users from phishing attacks: for Microsoft’s Edge, the service is Defender SmartScreen, and for Chrome, Firefox, and many derivatives, it’s Google’s Safe Browsing. URL Reputation services do what you’d expect — they return a reputation based on the URL, and the browser will warn/block loadingContinue reading “Cloaking, Detonation, and Client-side Phishing Detection”

Silliness – Fiddler Blocks Malware

Enough malware researchers now depend upon Fiddler that some bad guys won’t even try to infect your system if you have Fiddler installed. The Malware Bytes blog post has the details, but the gist of it is that the attackers use JavaScript to probe the would-be victim’s PC for a variety of software. Beyond Kaspersky,Continue reading “Silliness – Fiddler Blocks Malware”