VirusTotal += FraudSense

We are excited to announce the inclusion of FraudSense as a new URL scanning engine in VirusTotal. FraudSense offers services to automate and enable real-time detection of phishing sites and their targeted brands. They have developed their own in-house phishing detection technology, which they describe as:

Based on cognitive concepts, artificial intelligence and active learning, our innovative technology automates what has traditionally been a labor-intensive process and enables real-time detection of phishing sites and their targeted brands.
Key features include:
0-Day Phishing Detection: Early discovery of new, unreported phishing sites.Brand Recognition: Accurate identification of the targeted brand.Language-Independent: Detection of both English and non-English phishing sites.Self-Sufficient: Independent of community-sponsored blacklists.

FraudSense is exposing its phishing feed to VirusTotal, so that users can check whether a given URL is already in their blacklist and hopefully get yet one more second opinion that will help them in keeping their environments safe.

An example of a URL detected by FraudSense:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/59c8caddf3295bfb72361d76ccb77f7405c6b4478ed4391eee7a9e80929734a8/analysis/

Welcome FraudSense!

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VirusTotal += StopBadware

StopBadware is a nonprofit anti-malware organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our work makes the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites. We protect people and organizations from becoming victims of viruses, spyware, scareware, and other badware.

This is the way the StopBadware team describes itself, a pretty awesome initiative that has managed to bring together many partners. From now onward VirusTotal users will also be able to take advantage of their URL verdicts.

StopBadware numbers are very impressive, since their launch they have managed to:

• inform over 700,000 website owners about how to remediate their compromised sites and prevent future attack
• serve more than 10 million Google and Firefox users with content about how to mitigate their risk of badware infection
• help de-blacklist over 100,000 websites flagged by our data providers for badware
• enlist more than 50 web hosting providers from 22 countries (and counting) in the We Stop Badware™ Web Host program, which helps those providers respond more quickly and effectively to reports of badware on their networks

Without doubt, this integration will bring great value to VirusTotal, thank you StopBadware!

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VirusTotal += Threathive

ThreatHive is a domain and IP reputation tracking system comprised of data collected from various sources including sandboxing , collecting data from various spampot systems and independent research. 

This is how The Malwarelab describes its ThreatHive initiative which has just been integrated in VirusTotal. With this inclusion we are well over the 40 URL scanners, over the weekend we have integrated some new engines that we will be announcing in the coming days.

Thank you The Malwarelab!

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