avastel

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A live browser fingerprinting and bot detection playground(fingerprint-scan.com)
2 points by avastel 2mo ago|1 comments
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GPU-Based Device Fingerprinting(shaderghost.gg)
2 points by avastel 2mo ago|0 comments
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Fingerprint Harvesting in the Bot Ecosystem(castle.io)
2 points by avastel 5mo ago|0 comments
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BotmasterLabs: Powering an Era of Spam(castle.io)
1 points by avastel 6mo ago|0 comments
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Inside a bot operator's email verification infrastructure(blog.castle.io)
3 points by avastel 7mo ago|0 comments
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Account enumeration in the wild: analyzing a real-world Spotify enumeration tool(blog.castle.io)
2 points by avastel 7mo ago|0 comments
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by avastel 7mo ago
Author here. I first built FPScanner during my PhD around 2017–2018, when I was doing research on browser fingerprinting and bot detection. After that I did not really maintain it for years. I recently decided to revive it because things ch
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FPScanner – open-source browser fingerprinting and bot detection library(github.com)
3 points by avastel 7mo ago|1 comments
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by avastel 8mo ago
I wrote a blog post recently about the technique used by LinkedIn to do extension probing, as well as other ways to do it with less side effects https://blog.castle.io/detecting-browser-extensions-for-bot-...
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by avastel 8mo ago
Since I was also tracking this proxy network as part of my side project, I wrote a short blog post + give access to 16m+ proxy IPs IoCs that belong to this proxy network: https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/learning_zone/a
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by avastel 8mo ago
Since I was also tracking this proxy network as part of my side project, I wrote a short blog post + give access to 16m+ proxy IPs IoCs that belong to this proxy network: https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/learning_zone/a
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Disrupting the Largest Residential Proxy Network(cloud.google.com)
8 points by avastel 8mo ago|1 comments
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Inside the IPIDEA residential proxy network disrupted by Google(deviceandbrowserinfo.com)
2 points by avastel 8mo ago|0 comments
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You see an email ending in .eu.org. Must be legit, right?(blog.castle.io)
1 points by avastel 8mo ago|0 comments
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Detecting browser extensions for bot detection, lessons from LinkedIn and Castle(blog.castle.io)
2 points by avastel 9mo ago|0 comments
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Roll your own bot detection: server-side detection(blog.castle.io)
1 points by avastel 1y ago|1 comments
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Roll your own bot detection: fingerprinting/JavaScript(blog.castle.io)
3 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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by avastel 1y ago
I recently wrote about the limits of these kinds of fingerprinting tests. They tend to overly focus on uniqueness without taking into account stability. Moreover sample size is often really small which tends to artificially make a lot of us
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by avastel 1y ago
(Author here) TBH I don't think the main goal of Google was to make bots undetectable. It was more a side effect of preventing side effects while reviewing errors in the devtools: https://source.chromium.org/chromium&#x
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Why a classic CDP bot detection signal suddenly stopped working(blog.castle.io)
3 points by avastel 1y ago|2 comments
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by avastel 1y ago
Interesting article. I’ve been curious for a while about how residential proxy IPs are collected too. Many come from shady browser extensions or mobile apps, especially free VPNs (wink wink Hola VPN). People often don’t realize they are tur
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Stealth Clicking in Chromium vs. Cloudflare's Captcha(yacinesellami.com)
3 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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Finding links between fraudulent email domains using graph-based clustering(blog.castle.io)
2 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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How to detect Open Bullet 2 bots running in Puppeteer mode(blog.castle.io)
1 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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From detection to trust: the evolving challenge of AI bot authentication(blog.castle.io)
1 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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What browser fingerprinting tests like Amiunique show, and what they miss(blog.castle.io)
2 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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Detecting Gmail-based fake accounts: what Emailnator teaches us(blog.castle.io)
3 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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Bought sneaker proxies by mistake, did science with them anyway(blog.castle.io)
4 points by avastel 1y ago|0 comments
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How bot detection misfires on non-mainstream browsers and privacy tools(blog.castle.io)
7 points by avastel 1y ago|1 comments
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by avastel 1y ago
Author here: I work in bot detection, and wrote this post to explain why privacy-conscious users (VPNs, Brave, LibreWolf, etc.) often get flagged or blocked by anti-bot systems. I’ve seen a lot of frustration in threads here, so I wanted to

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