Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of phishing sites we found in February
In the introductory post for this blog, we mentioned that Huginn, our active phishing discovery tool, was being used to seed Yggdrasil and that we’d have more to share soon. Well, here it is. This is the first in what we plan to be a monthly series where we share what Huginn has been finding in the wild, break down interesting attacks, and report on how existing detection tools are performing. Our hope is that these posts are useful both as a resource for understanding the current phishing landscape and as a way to demonstrate what our tools can do.The NumbersOver the course of February, Huginn processed URLs sourced from public threat intelligence feeds and identified 254 confirmed phishing websites. For each of these, we checked whether Google Safe Browsing (GSB) had flagged the URL at…
