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   Deceptive airline lookalike domains that monetize using affiliate redirects(norn-labs.com)

   2 points by jdup7 5mo ago|0 comments
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   by jdup7 7mo ago

   These are fair points and I agree with a lot of them. GSB operates at a scale we don't, and the conservatism that comes with being the default for billions of users is a real constraint. The post tries to acknowledge that ("the ta
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   by jdup7 7mo ago

   Fair point in isolation that number doesn't look good. The important context is that this dataset was built to test phishing detection, not to measure false positive rates on normal traffic. It's sourced from our threat intelligen
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   by jdup7 7mo ago

   Yeah probably could have done better at describing the methodology. The dataset is just the confirmed (manually by a human) phishing urls. We only included the FPs to show that the tooling isn't perfect there were many TNs that we did
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   by jdup7 7mo ago

   Probably could have been a bit more descriptive around the dataset. Our tooling pulls in a lot more than 250 URLs but since we are manually confirming them that means a smaller dataset. In other words, out of the urls we pulled in these 250
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   Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites(norn-labs.com)

   296 points by jdup7 7mo ago|93 comments