Abstract: Targeted Phishing attacks continues to make significant threat to individuals and corporate organizations by mimicking legitimate websites to steal sensitive data. In this study we did ...

Scammers Are Using This URL Typo to Mimic Microsoft, Marriott Hackers are replacing the 'm' in certain domains with 'rn' (r and n) to make communication from well-known companies look genuine.

A Python script that obfuscates URLs using open redirects and HTTP Basic Authentication tricks, useful for cybersecurity testing and ethical hacking. A high-performance asynchronous URL Shortener API ...

FIGHT VS. SCAMS. Telecommunications company Smart’s official domains. The telco firm on Wednesday (Sept. 3, 2025) said it stopped sending shortened links for its text blasts and is instead using the ...

Layers of link wrapping hide malicious URLs used for phishing. Learn how to protect against link wrapping attacks. Threat actors exploited Proofpoint and Intermedia link-wrapping services in phishing ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...

Editor's take: The number of services Google has chosen to retire is starting to resemble a digital massacre. While Mountain View excels at launching new products, its track record for long-term ...

Links created with Google’s URL shortener will return a 404 error starting August 25th. Links created with Google’s URL shortener will return a 404 error starting ...

An important change concerns the Google service goo.gl: On August 25, 2025, the URL shortener from the tech giant finally discontinued. As of this date, old short links via goo.gl will no longer work ...