Cybersecurity team develops ‘verifiable phishing reports’ to fight scammers

Security Alliance has developed TLS Attestations to cryptographically verify phishing reports, solving the problem of scammers cloaking malicious content.

A cybersecurity nonprofit has released a new tool to help security researchers verify crypto phishing attacks, which led to more than $400 million stolen in the first half of this year.

On Monday, the Security Alliance (SEAL) announced that it had been working on a new tool to enable “advanced users and security researchers” to join the fight against crypto phishing by verifying that a reported phishing website is malicious. 

Cybersecurity researchers often cannot see or replicate what users see when they encounter a potentially malicious link, as scammers have developed “cloaking features” to serve benign content to suspected web scanners, they added.

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