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If email filters can detect that the ultimate long URLs are malicious (hence the use of bitly shortened links), couldn't bitly detect those malicious links usi
by drited 10y ago
If email filters can detect that the ultimate long URLs are malicious (hence the use of bitly shortened links), couldn't bitly detect those malicious links using the same techniques to cut down on these types of attack? Their response seemed a little defeatist.
- frandroid 10y agoPeople use bit.ly specifically to shorten long URLs; for example, URLs with long Google analytics parameters (e.g. &utm=...) so that would defeat the purpose of using bit.ly.
- drited 10y agoI should explain what I meant further: I wasn't suggesting that bit.ly prevent people from shortening links, rather I was suggesting that they filter for links like the one mentioned in the article which are clearly intended to trick people into thinking they are clicking a link to a Google domain when in fact it is a link to the nefarious party's server. See the long link in the article for what I mean. It looked like a google.com link but in fact was a link to a.tk domain.