SEAL 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.

Cybersecurity nonprofit, Security Alliance, 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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