Crypto crime research group SEAL Org unveils new way to report potential phishing sites — TradingView News
The Security Alliance, the crypto crime investigation unit better known as SEAL, unveiled a new way to report potential phishing sites that use increasingly sophisticated ways for hackers to conceal their tracks.
“Traditionally, automated scanning of URLs encounters all the problems typically faced by web scrapers, including CAPTCHA and anti-bot protections. In addition, scammers have developed ‘cloaking’ features to serve benign content to suspected web scanners,” SEAL wrote on Monday. “What we needed was a way to see what the user was seeing.”
SEAL’s new “Verifiable Phishing Reporter” uses a new cryptographic scheme designed by the team called “TLS attestations” that enables whitehats — ethical hackers who…
