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 += AegisLab WebGuard

Our effort to pump up our URL scanner backbone continues, today we are excited to announce the integration of AegisLab WebGuard, a concise malicious URL database to prevent malicious URLs whose characteristics are described by its developers as:

Fast update and leave less open window for attack. Less false positive than other web filter DBs. Website hijacking prevention. Concise malicious URL database. Including: Drive-by-Downloads, BlackHat SEOFake Anti-Virus, Installer and Updates, Scarewares and etc.

You can read more about the kind of threats that AegisLab WebGuard intercepts in this blog post: http://blog.aegislab.com/?p=78

Welcome on board guys, thanks for joining VirusTotal!

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VirusTotal += Kaspersky URL scanner

We are excited to announce that Kaspersky has just joined the club of URL scanners! As many of you know, VirusTotal does not only check files with antivirus solutions, it can also scan Internet sites making use of different malicious URL datasets and URL scanning engines. This functionality is available at: https://www.virustotal.com/#url

Kaspersky's latest security suites contain a URL scanning module known as kaspersky URL advisor, which is described by the company as:

The URL scanning module, which is called Kaspersky URL Advisor, is managed by the Web Anti-Virus component from Kaspersky Internet Security 2012. This module checks if links located on the web page belong to the list of suspicious and phishing web addresses from anti-virus databases which you get during anti-virus databases update.
Also Kaspersky URL Advisor uses reputation services from Kaspersky Security Network. Using data from the reputation services, Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 marks links in the web browser, thereby informing you about the possible dangers of this or that website even before you follow the link in question.

Part of this functionality has been very generously made available to VirusTotal in order to perform checks of URLs submitted by our users against their dataset.

This is yet one new URL scanner that joins our family hoping to make the Internet a safer place, if you have a malicious URL dataset or some technology that, given a site is capable of producing a maliciousness verdict, do not hesitate to join the battle.

Thank you, Kasperky team, for making this possible!

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