virustotal += Blueliv URL scanner

We are excited to announce that we have just integrated Blueliv's malicious URL tracker in virustotal, as yet one more URL scanner providing verdicts on URLs submitted by users. In their own words:

Blueliv is a leading provider of cyber threat information and analysis intelligence for large enterprises, service providers, and security vendors. The company’s deep expertise, data sources, and cloud-based platform address a comprehensive range of cyber threats to turn global threat data into real-time actionable intelligence specifically for each client in an easy-to-use dashboard. Blueliv’s clients include leading bank, insurance, telecom, utility, and retail enterprises.

At present, Blueliv's tracker is highly focused on sites used as C&C infrastructure for trojans, URLs distributing malware and sites with exploit kits, an example of their detections can be found in the following reports:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/78b30edc4de035348586cd408626009bbc42be366873e65a8bcc4f35f780f783/analysis/1415884660/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/885b6e1dc91e1f01413c0316117f294203d643a1ef3ec79c17556956ff08d086/analysis/1415890213/

Hopefully this integration will lead to increased knowledge about threats and will help protect users world-wide.

Welcome Blueliv!

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VirusTotal += SecureBrain URL scanner

Some weeks ago I came across gred, the truth is I had never heard of gred before, however, I did know SecureBrain, the company behind gred. I contacted them to see whether they would be interested in introducing their malicious URL dataset in VirusTotal and they made it possible with utmost diligence.

We are extremely grateful to SecureBrain and very excited to announce that they now appear in our URL reports, just as an example:

https://www.virustotal.com/url/e8750c0b772976de6563aa81162fd319256064c76a00e0d46ab5cc5d7ebe1933/analysis/1341229461/

The SecureBrain team describe their service as follows:

Gred Security Service - Web Check
Web Check is an award winning SaaS service to help ensure you web site content is free from malware often injected by Hackers. By keeping your web content free from un-authorized malicious changes, it will help protect your customer when visiting your web site. 

You may read more about their technology at their product description site.

Welcome on board SecureBrain!

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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 += Sophos URL scanner

Lately we had been introducing many domain characterization datasets/tools in our URL scanning engine, today we are excited to announce that Sophos' fully-fledged URL filtering solution has become part of VirusTotal and will be characterizing both full URLs and domains.

This is an example of the Sophos output with their malicious test domain, do not forget to refer to the additional information section to see the threat information provided:

https://www.virustotal.com/url/d77e1526bbb2941575cd25edfe23bac54caa38969c4d63c9a85f5e09d4d2d01b/analysis/1339745884/

The Sophos team describe their solution as follows:

You can connect your computers to our constantly updated list of millions of infected websites, so your users can’t get to them — even when they're outside your gateway protection. And we keep it updated, adding around 40,000 new sites every day. Sophos Live URL Filtering is included in all of our Endpoint products and suites.  

You may read more about it on their web site.

We would like to give Sophos URL scanner a really warm welcome and thank them for allowing us to keep improving VirusTotal!

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