VirusTotal += Segasec URL scanner

We have added Segasec to the assortment of URL scanners on VirusTotal. You can find the results when scanning a URL at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

In their own words:

Segasec is a Tel-Aviv based cyber-security startup providing end-to-end digital threat protection against consumer phishing attacks that originate in your blind spot - beyond the enterprise perimeter. Segasec’s patent-pending technology provides intelligence of upcoming attacks at the earliest possible preparation stages, running quadrillions of targeted scans that identify even unknown attack patterns. Segasec blocks compromised assets before they become a live risk, because once customer trust is broken, it’s already too late.

If you ask our customers what made them pick us over the competition, this is what they say -  End-to-end solution, in an entirely managed service. Early, proactive detection, both for brand and non-brand related threats. Fast and efficient block and take down, in under 3 hours.   Zero integration and fast onboarding .

If you would like to see a few example detections, checkout these reports:

• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/6a9428ab21d312e5114dcff4bfc15fa7522892aa10283306afd6ee859f729b29/detection
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/bc3855182b5a91c8be6d49f32b97ad6783299f002a63736d90de06bc1f511a73/detection
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/a5c0a4fe8b0fee82f2ca5e0f2dac3741e5688ae73cb50d90c1911b048ede8288/detection
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/dbc587d2ec795967497f2d5295f3508d738040457a0600bd3382c664b339c379/detection
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/6420296609d93444de5b343fb1df3a0673ee218b27c96f43e476342e6bd1b442/detection

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VirusTotal += Cyscon SIRT URL Scanner

We have just introduced Cyscon SIRT (C-SIRT) malicious URL dataset in VirusTotal's URL scanning engine.

This is an example of the Cyscon (C-SIRT) output, do not forget to refer to the additional information section in order to see the threat information provided:

https://www.virustotal.com/url/252ee025a4a6b57f0b302a97f44ea305863a4cb9419e6f141161cd72b47addb0/analysis/1340792226/

The Cyscon team describe their service as follows:

cyscon & it’s partners/friends provide a “Security Incident Reporting Service” (SIRT) to any network owner, who is interested in receiving automated alerts regarding malware, phishing & other security related issues within his network.

You may read more about it on their web site.

We would like to give the Cyscon team a really warm welcome and thank them for allowing us to keep improving VirusTotal!

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VirusTotal URL scanner += AlienVault

Yesterday we added Comodo Site Inspector to VirusTotal's URL scanning engine, today we are really happy to announce that AlienVault has also become part of our small family. The list of URL scanners has now grown to 27 and a couple of other domain/URL characterization tools/datasets.

AlienVault develops and maintains several security solutions, one of the most famous ones is its OSSIM. In building these tools, the AlienVault team comes across many threats, just as they describe it in their website:

Our people constantly monitor, analyse, reverse engineer and report on sophisticated zero-day threats including malware, botnets, phishing campaigns are more. Through this team of dedicated and renowned security experts, AlienVault contributes code, documentation, analysis and research results in various forms to the security community, to educate it and to make the world a more secure place for all of us.

The AlienVault team has very kindly put one of their malicious URL datasets at our disposal so that VirusTotal's URL scanner can query it, they also publish some statistics about what they are seeing in the wild in their Open Source IP Reputation Portal.

Once again, we would like to thank AlienVault in helping us improve VirusTotal and we look forward to other malicious URL/domain datasets/characterization tools contacting us to be included in VirusTotal.

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